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4 Americans won’t be home for Christmas because they’re still missing in Iraq

Although Operation Iraqi Freedom ended last week, the families of 4 Americans still officially categorized as missing in Iraq haven’t stopped searching yet. 

The Army’s investigative unit told Megan von Ackermann in 2006 that her husband had been killed in a botched kidnapping the day he disappeared, Oct. 9, 2003. But for her, the story isn’t over. She told The Daily that even though she held a funeral for Kirk in January 2007, she doesn’t consider herself a widow.

“When we meet people, we have this set of standard questions that we ask each other: What do you do? Are you married?” she said. “I get hung up on the second one. Yes, I kind of know that I’m widowed; I kind of don’t.”

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