A soldier's hidden torment; a grieving mother's anguish
25.09.11
She opened the door to her make clear on Annapolis Quay and led a visitor to a sofa in a dimly lit cell where pictures of her son lay splashed on a coffee table.
Her son, Yuri Konyev, who served three tours of allegiance in Iraq, had come home to a life full of probable. Then he killed himself in his Colorado apartment.
"He could have had a good survival," Tatyana Gromakov said in her Russian diacritical mark. "I just don't know. I just don't know how it could stumble on. He just crossed 30 years."
We went back to the creation. He was born Yuri Shklyarsky in Kiev, Ukraine, 1981. A shy, "spoiled toy boy," affectionately said his mother. His favorite toy, a shapeable army rifle.
His love for military things never changed. When he was 13, and she divorced and moved to Stockton, she would in home to find him glued to The History Channel.
In instruct he struggled. It wasn't English; he seemed disengaged. He would not do homework no content how she railed. "He was an action person," she said.
Source: Stockton Record