Bert getting interviewed by the AP prior to the incident as rrrod looks on.
Raphael Zappala winces...His brother...a sergeant...had been killed in Baghdad on April 26...
"I think about him every day," said Zappala, 26, a food stamp advocate(emphasis added) in Philadelphia.
(This quotation is at the end of the article)"I've been anti-war and just a peace activist since I was in my mother's womb," he said.
I am sorry for his family's loss. The young man who died was probably a patriot and a hero.
What is a food stamp advocate? Does that mean he is a social worker?
But this quote...
I've been anti-war and just a peace activist since I was in my mother's womb," he said.
...is simply absurd.
I would guess that "food stamp advocate" means he's a lobbyist of some kind, perhaps at the county or state level, for groups such as "minority" and illegal immigrant activists who want to expand the scope and size of the food stamps program.