Parents of Troops in Iraq Fight to Get Them Home

["Johannes Schneider" <Johannes.Schneider@xxxxxxx>]

>From the Washington Post:

Parents of Troops in Iraq Fight to Get Them Home
By Steve Vogel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 14, 2003; Page B02
Thomas McMahon is rankled by suggestions that his opposition to the U.S.
military presence in Iraq shows a lack of support for American troops.
"I don't know how much more support you can give the troops than your one
and only son," said McMahon, a Herndon lawyer who fought in Vietnam with an
Army infantry unit. His son, Collin, 26, a member of the Army's 75th Ranger
Regiment, served in Iraq in the spring and may be sent again, he said.
McMahon, 58, was one of a dozen military family members and veterans who
appeared yesterday at a news conference in Washington launching "Bring Them
Home Now," a national campaign to return to their home bases the 150,000
U.S. troops serving in Iraq.
The war has claimed the lives of 267 U.S. service members in hostile and
non-hostile operations, including 58 killed since President Bush declared
major combat operations over May 1. The latest casualty was a U.S. soldier
killed yesterday by a roadside bomb south of Tikrit.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56261-2003Aug13.html