Wiccan widow not invited to meet Bush during visit
During his visit to Reno on Tuesday, President George W. Bush met privately with families of fallen Northern Nevada soldiers. Fernley resident Roberta Stewart, widow of Sgt. Patrick Stewart, was not among the invited guests.
Patrick Stewart was killed along with four other soldiers on Sept. 25, 2005, when a Chinook helicopter from the Nevada Army National Guard's Mustang 22 Unit out of Reno was shot down in Afghanistan.
According to the "Record of Emergency Data" provided by Stewart, the spouse is the first person listed on the document for notification purposes. The children are listed second, followed by the service member's father, then mother.
"I don't believe Roberta's exclusion from the meeting with President Bush was an oversight," she said. "Out of all the Nevada soldiers who were killed in the wars, the most visible of those was the late Sgt. Patrick Stewart and his widow Roberta Stewart
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