Cynthia Lefever starts every speech with the same introduction.
"Hello, my name is Cynthia Lefever, and my special talent is pestering and badgering," she says. "I will continue to pester and badger until I get an answer or see progress or change."
Three months after the deployment of her son, Army Specialist Rory Dunn, to Iraq, Lefever received the phone call that no mother wants. Her son's unarmored vehicle was blown up near the city of Fallujah. ...