Soldier's Parents Send Photo Pins to Iraq (POW Maupin)

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041209/ap_on_re_us/kidnapped_soldier_parents&cid=519&ncid=1480


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CINCINNATI - Troops opening care packages sent by the family of Army Reserve Spc. Keith "Matt" Maupin are asked for only one favor in return — to help find the captured soldier.


Enclosed in each care package with candy, games, canned goods and other treats is a small plastic bag with 10 homemade pins bearing 21-year-old Maupin's photo. A short note thanking the troops for defending their country also includes the family's simple, heartfelt request: "Please help us find him."


His parents, Carolyn and Keith Maupin, said they sort donations and pack boxes seven days a week at a support center they set up in two donated, empty storefronts in suburban Cincinnati.


"I know he will come back to us," Carolyn Maupin recently told The Associated Press. She talked calmly, her hands in constant motion while attaching yellow ribbons to the photo pins. "Maybe someone will see one of these photos and it will help them find him."


"Even if they just drop the photo in their pocket, it could help them know it's Matt when they find him," Keith Maupin said.

[billyoc]

1. Thank goodness we have the Geneva Convention

to guarantee humane treatment of POW's. :eyes:

[izzie]

2. But I do not think the Far Right understand why.

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[liberalnurse]

3. They don't have the a clue either to the "Why"

they need to know and understand the Geneva Convention. They are stuck on their own John Wayne Jihad and are rigidly fixed.

[Jivenwail]

4. I've been asking about this for a while now

My God, no one wants to talk about him. It seems as if this young man's capture has just fallen from the face of earth and media.

My heart goes out to this family and I grieve for them. Who, among the media, will take up their cause and keep their son's disappearance in the forefront? Where are all these so-called "support the troops" ditto heads supporting an all out effort to find him?

I just hate this unjust war and what it has done to so many lives and families.

[billyoc]

5. This story won't have any legs

because the * administration KNOWS that they're sadistic torture of POW's has left this man with a very grim fate. I wonder how many other captured soldiers we won't be hearing about? :scared:

[MaineDem]

6. Me too

The forgotten soldier.
So sad.

And infuriating.

[leetrisck]

7. I always ask about him when I call C-Span

Every time - not that I ever get any answers - anything to keep his name out there.