Lottery Winnings Bring Dad Home From Iraq

[Champ]

LOUISVILLE, KY. - In July 2003, Amanda Young said goodbye to her father as he left for Iraq (news - web sites) to work for a contractor and help the family out of debt. Now Charles Craig Young is heading home, since the family won $100,000 Wednesday night playing Powerball.



They matched five numbers, 5-6-19-44-50, but missed on the Powerball, 28.


"We're just glad he can finally come home," said Amanda Young, of Flatwood. "We're just relieved to get him out of there."


Judy and Amanda Young got the news Wednesday night and realized the implications immediately for her father, Amanda Young said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&ncid=816&e=1&u=/ap/20041008/ap_on_re_us/powerball_winner

[Streetdoc270]

1. whats wrong with this picture...

The guy had to go to Iraq because they needed the money yet they still could buy lottery tickets?

[nickgutierrez]

2. I don't know how much lottery tickets are in this state...

but in Florida, they're only a dollar. That's hardly enough to prevent you from, as * once put it, "putting food on your family". Which, I presume, is the reason the husband went to Iraq in the first place.

[Big Kahuna]

3. what's wrong with this picture..

howabout having to go to Iraq to find a decent paying job? What's wrong with that picture?

Also, don't be so friggen judgemental. You sound like a republican.