http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/01/12/stop.loss.family/index.htmlArmy 1st Sgt. Jeffrey Butz looked forward to retirement in June after 20 years in the service. Now he is headed to Iraq for a one-year tour of duty, his retirement ordered on hold.
Butz, 37, told his family about the change of plans after Thanksgiving dinner, said his mother, Lee Butz, of West Lafayette, Indiana.
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She was so upset that she wrote a letter to her hometown newspaper, The Lafayette Courier and Journal, that questioned the Bush administration's decision to go to war in Iraq.
"I asked
why he was going to Iraq. It's important that I support him and respect his feelings, and I know when to keep my mouth shut as I protest this bogus invasion," Lee Butz wrote. "His answer was unsettling. 'Because some guy told me I had to.'
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