Honoring Those Who Gave the Ultimate Sacrifice for their Country?

Last fall, we reported on the Okinawan widow of a Marine killed in Iraq who ran into visa difficulties. Hotaru Nakama and Marine Sgt. Michael Fershke married while Ferschke was deployed to Iraq, where he was killed a month later. Atthe time, she was six months pregnant and sought to move to Tennessee to raise their child in the town where the father grew up and family lives. It had been reported that, after some bumps in the road, the widow Ferschke secured a visa to come to the U.S.

Here is an update.  Hotaru Ferschke gave birth last Friday to Michael Ferschke III in Okinawa (apparently after being denied entry into the U.S. to give birth here). And Hotaru is again running into problems securing a lawful permanent resident visas.  For Bill Jempty’s updates on this case, click here and here.

KJ