Karla Comfort arrives in her specially painted Hummer at Camp Pendleton. (Glenn Koenig / LAT)
Comfort said her Hummer memorial is a way of coping with the grief over the loss of her son on Dec. 1. (Glenn Koenig / LAT)
Camp Pendleton Marines check out Comfort’s Hummer. (Glenn Koenig / LAT)
Comfort stands beside the Hummer decorated with portraits of her son and nine other Marines killed by a bomb in Iraq. Comfort stopped at Camp Pendleton en route to Oregon, where her son is buried. (Glenn Koenig / LAT)