Darryl Sharratt, Haditha Marine dad, on Front Line tonight at 10 EST [Listen later at the link]

The Front Line ^ | June 20, 2007 | Kit Jarrell

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Thanks, Red for helping in getting the word out for Don’s ride. I believe the ride should get considerably larger the farther south they get. It’s about 1200 miles from Seattle to Camp Pendleton.

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Letter to the Editor in the North County Times

Marines should not be on trial

I read almost every day about these Marines who are on trial for murder. What were they trained to do? Under the environment they were sent into, and not knowing who your enemy is, what can anyone expect?

I do not believe they murdered anyone. If you are going to single out these Marines, Army men and sailors for mistakes under these circumstances, then Bush and Cheney need to be standing right beside them on trial. They are the ones who sent these young, trained men to kill over there.

I was in the Navy and I have two sons who have been over there twice, and a daughter-in-law who is in Afghanistan now. Our oldest son retired in 2005 as a corpsman with the Marines out of Pendleton and, to this day, he will not talk about some things he had to do over there. But what little I did hear, we are lucky we do not have 10,000 troops dead instead of 3,500.

Right or wrong about this war, these men should not be tried and convicted of what they were trained to do while the responsible ones sit in Washington on their fat behinds.

Robert Anderson
Escondido

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This will be worth checking tomorrow for a transcription -- Rush's site.