Marine in Iraq: 'It's worse every day'
MIKEARGENTO
Thursday, October 14, 2004
The summer of 2000, before his senior year in high school, Jonathan Snyder made up his mind. He was going to be a Marine.
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His lessons culminated Sunday, when he was quoted in the Washington Post, saying, "Every day you read articles in the states when it's like 'Oh, it's getting better and better.' But when you're here, you know it's worse every day."
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Sherman Snyder has heard some of this from his son. He doesn't hear from him as regularly as he'd like. It's hard to make a phone call or write a letter when you're under attack. Sherman said his son has kept in touch with his wife, Stephanie, and 7-month-old daughter, Ann Marie. They are living with Sherman in Gettysburg while Jonathan is overseas.
His son doesn't say a lot about what's going on in Iraq. He does say, though, that things aren't going well.
And he does question the war.
"I feel about the same way he does," said Sherman, who works for a weatherization company. "We've lost 1,000 soldiers for nothing."
Sherman said, "I don't blame those boys over there. They're doing their job. But the people who got us into this ..."
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