BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- Most casualties of war never get the chance to have their story told in a documentary. But one local soldier is having 37 pages of his personal diary opened to the world.

Four years ago, Doris Kent awoke to someone knocking at the door of her Bellingham home; her husband Chris, answered.

"And he comes running up the stairs and he's already crying and he says, it's two army officers," Kent said.

They were there to tell her that just 37 days after arriving in Iraq, her son Jonathan was killed by a improvised explosive device.

"And all I could remember is hearing loud screaming - you know - and it was me," she said.

In the weeks that followed, Doris became cut-off from everyone. She couldn't work; couldn't get out of bed.

Until one day, a large trunk arrived on her doorstep.  Inside were all of Jonathan's personal belongings -- his clothes, uniforms, and even videotapes he'd shot in Iraq.

But what caught her attention most of all was a little green book.

Curious, she opened it up and inside discovered something about her son she never knew before.

"I read it twice and then I told my family, 'Look at what I found. He kept a journal," Kent said.

It talked about life on base with the other men and harrowing missions -- all in harm's way.

"Sounded just like him. You could actually hear his voice," she said.

But there was something else inside too. Throughout the diary, Jonathan talked about four of his fellow soldiers -- three who died inside the same Humvee that day, and one who survived -- Matthew Drake.

"I remember bits and pieces of what I've seen," Drake said.

He suffered a traumatic brain injury and broken bones. But, after also seeing Matthew in her son's videos, Doris wanted to meet him.

So they did. -- Doris, Matthew and Matthew's mom Lisa, who was reluctant.

"You know, I got my son back, and that's not fair," Lisa Schuster said.

But, now the three are inseparable, and they're also the subjects of a documentary about their unique bond and about that one terrible day in the Iaqi desert that changed their lives forever.

It's all taken from Jonathan's little green diary -- 37 entries for every day he was still alive.

"37 little pages and then you get to the last one and it's empty," Kent said. "And that's the story."

The documentary is called the Corporals Diary. At the filmmaker's request, we left the details of the diary out of the story.

It premiers in Bellingham this Wednesday, Oct. 15, and all four mothers of the four soldiers killed will be there --  some of them meeting for the very first time.

"The Corporal's Diary: 38 Days in Iraq" will be shown at on the anniversary of his death. It will be screened at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15, and Thursday, Oct. 16, at Bellingham's Pickford Theater on 416 Cornwall Ave.

The DVD is available October 28th -- www.amazon.com/Corporals-Diary