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The Life and Death of A Soldier - 5/19/2007 3:22:12 PM

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E-Mails Reveal a Fallen Soldier's Story

By Alex KingsburyPosted 5/13/07 Four days before his death, Army Staff Sgt. Darrell Ray Griffin Jr., an infantry squad leader in Baghdad, sent an E-mail to his wife, Diana. "Spartan women of Greece used to tell their husbands, before they went into battle, to come back with their shields or laying on them, dying honorably in battle. But if they did not return with their shield, this showed that they ran away from the battle. Cowardice was not a Spartan virtue ... Tell me that you love me the same by me coming back with my shield or on it."

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070513/21soldier.htm

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RE: The Life and Death of A Soldier - 5/19/2007 3:39:46 PM

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Another DEAD PERSON who the people who DID NOT DEMAND THE TROOPS RETURN ARE ***DIRECTLY*** RESPONSIBLE FOR.

Nice going Bush Supporters. More Dead Soldiers b/c the Bush Supporters just wanna live in Denial.

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