And this news From Arizona, a 45-year-old mother died this week just days after learning her son had been killed in Iraq. Friends of Karen Unruh-Wahrer said she hadn’t stopped crying after learning her 25-year-old son was killed in Baghdad on Sept. 25. He had been in Iraq for less than a month. She died hours after she saw her son’s body. A hospital official said “Her grief was so intense — it seemed it could have harmed her, could have caused a heart attack. Her husband described it as a broken heart.”