article_snippet.sent: The highest-ranking military officer in the United States has apologized to a bereaved military mom after saying the Iraqi city where Lee died is 'not symbolic in any way'.
article_snippet.sent: General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sent a letter saying Lee regretted that Lee 'added to the grief' of Debbie Lee, whose son Marc was killed in Ramadi on August 2, 2006.
article_snippet.sent: Humbled: General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staffthe Joint Chiefs of StaffStaff, apologized to a military mother for belittling the sacrifice of a military mother .
article_snippet.sent: The remarks outraged Lee, who said she was shaking and reduced to tears to hear the general trivialize the city for which she son had died.
article_snippet.sent: Rounding on Dempsey later in the letter, she wrote: 'You, her son, owe an apology to the families whose loved ones blood was shed in Ramadi.
highlights_snippet.sent: General Martin Dempsey sent apology to Debbie Lee, whose son died in Iraq .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Lee said hearing General Martin Dempsey trivialize son's sacrifice brought Lee to tears .
  