Kathrine Muller, left is comforted by Marion Gray during a deployment ceremony in Burlington, Vt., Friday, Dec. 11, 2009. Muller lost her son, Pvt. Adam Muller, 21, who died in Nov 2007 when a roadside bomb blew up near the vehicle he was in traveling in Iraq. Gray lost her stepson, Sgt. Jamie Gray, 29, who was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in June 2004.
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)