Sergeant returned from Iraq charged with wife's murder...

sinkingfeeling

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Fri Apr-23-04 04:10 PM
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Sergeant returned from Iraq charged with wife's murder...

Just saw this on CNN website...killed wife in bathtub. Here is a quote from his father:

"This has devastated me," Pitts' father, also named James, told KIRO-TV of Seattle. "My son called and said, 'I just killed my wife.' ... He's not my son anymore. I feel my son is still in Iraq. You can thank George W. Bush for this."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/04/23/soldier.homicide.ap/index.html

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fryguy

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Fri Apr-23-04 04:13 PM
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1. horrible story, powerful quote

I fear we will be seeing more of this as the soldiers come home and have to deal with adjusting to civilian or peace-time life.

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Ilsa

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Fri Apr-23-04 04:24 PM
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2. God, what an awful story. A child loses his mother (and father).

Edited on Fri Apr-23-04 04:24 PM by Ilsa

A father loses his son. And a man loses his life to some form of insanity created by war.

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Mikimouse

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Fri Apr-23-04 04:43 PM
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3. Anyone have any info. on why this is...

a second degree murder charge? According to the headline: "Army sergeant who recently returned from a year in Iraq was charged Thursday with second-degree murder...". Just curious.

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NashVegas

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Fri Apr-23-04 04:59 PM
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4. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=502514

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