A mother mourning the son she lost in the Iran war says she told Trump: 'Go get 'em'

More than a month after her son, Maj. Cody Khork, died in the Iran war, Donna Burhans has found a routine that helps her cope.

By now, more than a month after her son died in the Iran war, Donna Burhans has found a routine that helps her cope.

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If she sits inside and dwells on his death, she gets too upset. She knows this. So, Burhans goes outside and takes solitary walks around her family’s 35-acre farm in Winter Haven, Florida. She gardens and, in the company of the cows, horses, dogs, cats and pigs that live on the grounds, talks aloud about her son, Cody Khork.

“They’re good listeners,” Burhans, 67, said with a laugh.