Enlisted To Honor KIA Son? Umm, no.

[unhappycamper]

Enlisted To Honor KIA Son? Umm, no.
Knight Ridder | December 13, 2007

A Fort Jackson, S.C., soldier featured in military articles was lying about enlisting to honor a son killed in Iraq.

The soldier, Pfc. Doug Saunders, 39, of Nevada, did not have a son die in combat, said Pat Jones, deputy public affairs officer at Fort Jackson.

Saunders' story was published in the Fort Jackson Leader on Oct. 11 and he later was profiled on the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command Web site. However, Army officials discovered Saunders had fabricated the story about a son's death after The State newspaper requested interviews with the soldier.

Now, Army officials cannot say whether Saunders even has a son.

"For me, everything in the article is suspect," Jones said. "We just don't know."


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,158159,00.html?wh=wh

[glowing]

1. Hmm another Bushie caught lying..

[MADem]

2. Ah, those recruiting standards!!! Breathe in, breathe out, raise your right hand, repeat after me!

[crikkett]

3. Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to be soldiers

they go to boot camp and sleep unprotected in big rooms with people like this.