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groovedaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 08:05 PM
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Being a Hero has a High Price
Posted on Tue, Mar. 23, 2004





Being a hero had a high price

SILVER STAR MARKED START OF PROBLEMS FOR IRAQ VETERAN

By Kimberly Hefling

ASSOCIATED PRESS


FORT CAMPBELL - In combat, Army Spec. Dwayne Turner was a hero. Back home from Iraq, his life has been a shambles.

Just last month the 101st Airborne Division soldier was honored with the prestigious Silver Star medal for saving at least two lives in combat. Today he is out of the Army, driving a borrowed car and sleeping at a friend's house.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/state/8253489.htm
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mark11727 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 08:13 PM
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1. If only...
... his dad was a Senator, and he was in the TANG.
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boobooday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 08:14 PM
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2. Just criminal!
They threw him aside because after witnessing horrors, and being wounded himself, he went on a drinking binge for two days and smoked weed.

Under our Bushian logic, he deserves a lifetime of misery for that.

Tragic.

http://www.wgoeshome.com
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