Marine In Iraq: 'It's Worse Every Day'

[fishface]

York Daily Record
October 15, 2004


The summer of 2000, before his senior year in high school, Jonathan Snyder made up his mind. He was going to be a Marine.

That's all he talked about, says his father, Sherman Snyder Jr. That's what he was all about, his dad says. He wanted to be the best, and the best were the Marines. His dad's not sure where his oldest son's desire came from. He has a couple of cousins who are Marines and an uncle served during World War II.

Jonathan, he said, was 100 percent dedicated to becoming a Marine.

He signed up that summer and, upon graduating from Gettysburg High School in 2001, he went off to Parris Island, S.C., for basic training. He was going to be a warrior.

His corps class graduated from basic on Sept. 12, 2001.

Snyder was gung-ho, as many of his Marine brothers were at the time. They were ready to kick ass and take names. They were ready to take vengeance on those who attacked the country they had sworn to defend with their lives.

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_marine_101504,00.html

[pacalo]

1. "Help is on the way" -- starting in January, 2005.

[Judi Lynn]

2. What a beautiful sight, 4_year_nightmare.

Someone has a merry imagination! Sure hope it's true. Thanks.

[izzie]

3. Anti-war.com has a good item also

It is about the men training the new Iraq police or national guard.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

4. Nice to see this in such a conservative newspaper

The loonies on Military.com's chatroom (see the "sound off" at the bottom of the article) make the Freepers look like Plato.

[Moderator]

5. This has been posted many times

in LBN.
The article you posted is from Oct 15th.