Megan Greenwell has a very sad story in today’s Washington Post.
Army Reservist James E. Dean had already served 18 months in Afghanistan when he was notified three weeks ago that he would be deployed to Iraq later this month....
Despondent about his orders, Dean barricaded himself inside his father's home with several weapons on Christmas, threatening to kill himself. After a 14-hour standoff with authorities, Dean was killed yesterday by a police officer after he aimed a gun at another officer, police said.
"His dad told me that he didn't want to go to war," Matthews (a neighbor) said. "He had already been out there and didn't want to go again."
I guess the moral of this story is if you don’t want to die for Bush’s War, we will kill you anyway.
Dean enjoyed hunting and fishing but had lost much of his enthusiasm for life when he found out that he was being deployed to Iraq. She (Mathews) said that she had not spoken to him since he was notified but that his father was extremely worried about Dean. "He was a good country boy," she said.
Bush is destroying this country. January 2009 cannot come quick enough.