Marine shot by cousin to avoid re-deployment

[friesianrider]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/15/marine.shooting.ap/index.html

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CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A young Marine who feared returning to Iraq persuaded his cousin to shoot him in the leg, then told police he was hit by random gang gunfire, authorities said.

The shooting early Saturday was meant to keep 19-year-old Moises Hernandez from going back to Iraq, prosecutors said.....

"Whatever he experienced changed him totally," the senior Hernandez said.

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[deadparrot]

1. So much for winning hearts and minds.

:scared:

[Sanity Claws]

2. Sad

His mistake was in filing a false report. If he had not filed a report and merely said that his cousin hit him by accident while cleaning the gun, he would not be facing charges.
I feel for that guy. A poor man being sent to fight a war for the oil tycoons and military industrial complex.