29 December 2006

A hero for our time

Meet Stephen Henderson. He has already served two tours of duty in the Army as a Sergeant in Afghanistan and was honourably discharged twenty months ago. Two weeks before Christmas Henderson, who is enrolled at Northern Illinois University and whose father is waiting for a liver transplant, received a letter from the Army ordering him to report for active duty by 14 January so that he may serve for a period "not to exceed 545 days" in Iraq.

His reaction? Hell no. I won't go.

As yet there has still been no sighting of the Bush twins in uniform.

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