'Fahrenheit 9/11' Marine killed in Iraq (with update)

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Wednesday June 28, 2006 · 9:46 AM PDT

2006/06/28 · 09:46

Sgt. Raymond J. Plouhar, 30, died in a roadside bombing in Iraq "while conducting combat operations" in Iraq's volatile Anbar province, according to a Defense Department announcement yesterday.

From the Yahoo news story:

Plouhar, who was stationed at Camp Pendleton, Calif., had taken four years off from active duty to serve as a recruiter in Flint after donating one of his kidneys to his uncle. He is seen in the 2004 film [Fahrenheit 9/11] approaching prospective recruits in a mall parking lot.
"It's better to get them when they're in ones and twos and work on them that way," he says in the film.

Plouhar is survived by his wife and two children, age 5 and 9, who live in Arizona. Read More

challenger Marcy Winograd neck-and-neck with Jane Harman?

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Saturday May 27, 2006 · 6:33 AM PDT

2006/05/27 · 06:33

You can feel it making phone calls, feel it walking the precincts. Something has shifted here in CA-36. Our gerrymandered Caifornia district, where antiwar progressive Marcy Winograd is challenging Jane Harman, is shaping up to be a real upset.

"Harman's own polls show [us] running neck and neck," Winograd said yesterday to a reporter. While that might sound like campaign swagger, there are similar noises coming from seasoned Democratic Party officials in Washington. They quietly admit CA-36 is now "too close to call" and "anybody's guess."

Needless to say this is a very exciting campaign. But despite hundreds of volunteers, the campaign still needs help. More on the flip.... Read More

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