No Child Left Behind

摘要

Ten-year-old lea gibbs was still awake in bed the night the Army chaplain and the casualty officer came by her father's house. The men offered no gentle talk of sacrifice, no quiet prayers. All Lea heard as she came out of her bedroom was the screaming of her step-mom: "Your daddy's dead! Your daddy's dead!" The following day, Lea's mother, Heidi Litherland, began seeking grief counseling for her daughter. "We don't handle that, Ma'am," Litherland says she was told when she contacted the base hospital at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas.