The US military has been withholding information from the families of soldiers who have lost their lives in American wars. Sometimes, like in the case of Marine Lance Cpl. Benjamin Schmidt, those soldiers were killed by “friendly fire,” and the families are never told about it.
Read the whole report Scott Huddleston and Sig Christenson at Express-News.
They probably are withholding the truth, but that´s what DOD does – it is consistent in withholding the truth on everything and anything.