I need info...when did Sheehans son join the marines???

Saphire

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Wed Aug-10-05 01:11 PM
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I need info...when did Sheehans son join the marines???

Edited on Wed Aug-10-05 01:35 PM by lady of texas

I need to know if it was before or after the war was started.

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Kerry fan

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Wed Aug-10-05 01:12 PM
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1. before war started....2000...nt

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Kerry fan

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Wed Aug-10-05 01:15 PM
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2. Interview with Cindy

DarkSyde (DS): Your son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, was deployed to Iraq in the spring of 2004. When and why did Casey join the military? What did you think about his decision?

Cindy Sheehan (CS): Casey joined the Army in May of 2000. I was devastated. He was 21, he didn't discuss it with us.

DS: Devastated? Why?

CS: Because he would be leaving home ... we are not a military family and we really didn't understand his enlistment.

DS: How did Casey feel about going to Iraq?

CS: He didn't want to go. He felt the war was wrong and did not support George Bush, but he felt it was his duty to go.

http://brentrasmussen.com/log/node/117

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Kerry fan

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Wed Aug-10-05 01:19 PM
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6. wait a minute

I thought marines, too...that says Army

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zbdent

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Wed Aug-10-05 01:39 PM
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9. "CS: He didn't want to go." That blows their argument clean out of

the water - "Casey would hate what his mother is saying . . ."

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Captain Hilts

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Wed Aug-10-05 01:16 PM
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3. Marines? (nt)

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Kerry fan

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Wed Aug-10-05 01:18 PM
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4. yes...Marines...

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City Lights

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Wed Aug-10-05 01:19 PM
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5. May of 2000.

Here's a blurb from a truthout article:

Casey joined the Army in May, 2000.

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/38/10216

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Saphire

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Wed Aug-10-05 01:32 PM
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7. Thanks guy's. That finished my argument with a repug. She wanted

Edited on Wed Aug-10-05 01:36 PM by lady of texas

to know why he volunteered to go over if he knew the risks. I told her that the problem was not with him being killed in a war defending our country, but that he was killed in twigs war for oil. And that maybe, had he known, he would not have joined.

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Saphire

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Wed Aug-10-05 01:34 PM
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8. and yes, the marines, sorry. I was just so angry when posting.

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