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liberaltrucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 10:54 PM
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Thursday 18 August 2005

Mr. Northern:

I am a Veteran of the Iraq war, having served with the 4th Infantry Division on the initial invasion with Force Package One.

While I was in Iraq, a very good friend of mine, Christopher Cutchall, was killed in an un-armored HMMWV outside of Baghdad. He was a cavalry scout serving with the 3d ID. Once he had declined the award of a medal because Soldiers assigned to him did not receive similar awards that he had recommended. He left two sons and a wonderful wife. On Monday night, August 16, you ran down the memorial cross erected for him by Arlington West.

<snip> Mr. Northern - I know little about Cindy Sheehan except that she is a grieving mother, a gentle soul, and wants to bring harm to no one. I know little about you except that you found your way to Crawford on Monday night in August with chains and a pipe attached to your truck for the sole purpose of dishonoring a memorial erected for my friends and lost Soldiers and hundreds of others that served this nation when they were called. I find it disheartening that good men like these have died so that people like you can threaten a mother who lost a child with your actions. I hope that you are ashamed of yourself.

Perry Jefferies, First Sergeant, USA (retired)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082005A.shtml
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 10:57 PM
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1. Heartbreaking - nominated.
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Independent_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 11:04 PM
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2. Thanks for posting this LT.
It's nice to see more veterans speaking out.
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liberaltrucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 11:14 PM
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3. My pleasure
Just hope the tears on my keyboard don't short out anything:cry:
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satya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-05 12:09 AM
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4. Powerful letter. Hadn't seen this one--thanks for the post. n/t
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-05 04:22 AM
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5. Ditto. n/t
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