Politics

Widow Fears Pentagon 'Lying' On Pneumonia

WASHINGTON -- Joining a growing chorus of families, the widow of a soldier in Iraq who died of a mysterious pneumonia-like illness said Thursday she fears the military may be lying about her husband's death. She said she worries that he may have died from the anthrax vaccine shots the Army gave him. "More and more I think it was the shots," said Stephanie Tosto, whose husband, Army Sgt. Michael L. Tosto, died June 17. Tosto said the military has given her little information about her husband's death. "I think they [the Army] might be lying about this stuff," Tosto, 22, said in a telephone interview from Baumholder, Germany. "I really feel like it. Nobody can tell me anything. If it is the shots, then of course they are lying." Posted by Editor at August 22, 2003 10:23 AM