Senator Webb's son is home on leave-Happy Fathers Day!

[babylonsister]

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news/politics.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2007-06-15-0158.html

For Father's Day, Webbs plan fishing trip
Senator talks about his son, who's home after deployment in Iraq

Friday, Jun 15, 2007 - 12:08 AM

By PETER HARDIN
TIMES-DISPATCH WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT

WASHINGTON -- "He and I are very, very close," Sen. Jim Webb said about his 25-year-old son, Marine Lance Cpl. Jimmy Webb.

Literally.

Jimmy, trim, sandy-haired and wearing civilian clothes, popped up to meet a visitor yesterday from a desk in an outer office adjoining his father's on Capitol Hill.

This is the same young man whose welfare in Iraq combat Webb declined to discuss with President Bush in a cool White House exchange last November.

Webb, D-Va., wore his son's combat boots on the campaign trail in Virginia last year. He declined then to talk about Jimmy, who was sent to Iraq. Webb has said he didn't want to politicize his son's service.

Now Jimmy, after a nine-month deployment, is home on leave for several weeks. He still has at least another year and a half in the Marine Corps and goes back to Camp Lejeune, N.C., on June 25.

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1. What a bittersweet time for both.

That has to be amazingly hard. Thank you, Sen. Webb, for honoring your son, and thank you, Jimmy, for your service.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

2. they were just shown on hardball..

[babylonsister]

3. NBC News also had a nice story about them-they're best friends, and

Webb Jr. gets teased by his fellow soldiers with John Fogarty's 'Fortunate Son' (I'm no senator's son?). Sweet.:)