Joan Najbar
A mother, Joan Najbar from Minnesota, is suing the Federal Government, since a letter was returned stamped “deceased” in which she had sent to her son in Iraq. This was not the fact seeing her son was actually alive and well.
Najbar claimed emotional stress and negligence, when filing a lawsuit last month at the U.S. District Court in Minneapolis.
The U.S. Postal service found no eveidence of negligence after Najbar originally in 2008 filed a claim. The Government have not yet responded to her lawsuit.
The letter which was sent in September 2006, when a few weeks later it was returned with the “deceased” in a red stamp mark. It was then that Najbar after contacting the Red Cross learnt her son was not killed and was alive.
Only days before Najbar was involved in an anti-war protest in the steps of Duluth post office, and her attorney is investigating if this had anything to do with the stamp and returned letter.
Her son Sam Eininger served as a National Guard in Iraq in 2006 when the letter was sent and returned.