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Hi Girlene,

I thought maybe I should clarify my remarks... You are exactly right, that is why I said the onus of undue command influence instead of finding of... The senior Marine judge and two appellate courts found UCI in Chessani case... although this hearing officer said Helland and Mattis proved they weren't unduly influential and the hearing officer agreed, the precedent set in Chessani’s case still stands... if (God forbid) Wuterich is convicted on appeal the UCI issue will undoubtedly be raised... no way around it. Maybe I should have said that but for brevity's sake I just said the trial went forward... leaving the reader to assume it was nor ruled on favorably. Glad you care enough to continue reading this stuff after all these years...
Nat Helms

Good evening if anyone is still awake... I was talking to with the campaign manager for the fellow running against Murtha in the 12th Congressional District in PA... a fellow named Larry Stiles - Murtha’s opponent is a gentleman named William Russell, a Reserve Army Lt Col and two - deployment veteran to the Gulf. He says there are about 50,000 veterans in Murtha’s Congressional District of 650,000 + residents and they are so incensed by his name calling - a central issue with his opponent who doesn’t have too much else to run on - that that it caused Murtha to flip-flop on the surge issue - was bad policy/now good policy hoping to regain some traction. The race is considered so vital by the republicans they are sending help from the Republican central Committee to unseat Murtha because they think the veterans make him so vulnerable... just thought it might be something nobody has heard... I didn’t know any of it anyway.

I’ve never done this before so please bear with me... but pukesville got my attention. What is that all about?

Nat Helms