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When the spotlight's off.(Scan)(Brief Article)
George W. Bush has been criticized for consoling the families of fallen American soldiers privately, instead of publicly. In our judgment, meeting with families outside the media glare and refusing to exploit such occasions to portray himself as "the President who feels your pain" is the more decent choice. By all accounts, Bush uses these opportunities to extend real sympathy and support, without political overtones.
Two families who were visited privately by the President after losing sons in Iraq spoke recently to their local paper, the Canton, Ohio Repository, about the experience. "He ...
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...two years after her son died in Iraq, Peggy Buryj is still not sure who fired the shot...learned from Vietnam to tell the truth," Peggy Buryj said. She would not say the name of...is no longer in the Army and wanted Peggy Buryj to know. The IG's office is already...
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...between the military and the family. Peggy Buryj, mother of Army Pfc. Jesse Buryj...with President Bush in Canton, when Peggy Buryj asked for help in finding out what happened...they disposed of all the evidence," Peggy Buryj said. Buryj, a policeman with the...
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...region, will be held in June 2008. Peggy Buryj, mother of Army Spc. Jesse Buryj...jesseburyj/, includes writings by Peggy Buryj, photographs, as well as entries from...also features simulated falling rain. Peggy Buryj said that was in part because it was...
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...discs in Iraq. "He played disc golf everywhere," said Peggy Buryj. At noon Saturday, the Jesse R. Buryj Memory Garden will...was devastated by Buryj's death. "It blew me away." Peggy Buryj said her son "met some very good people" playing disc golf...
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...The proposal, she said, puts "some of the burden of sending home our troops on the shoulders of the insurgents." But Peggy Buryj of Canton, the mother of Spc. Jesse Buryj, 22 -- who was killed in a friendly fire incident in May 2004 -- doesn't...
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...get some people who don't understand how I can be patriotic and anti-war," he said. "I'm not anti-military." Peggy Buryj of Canton, the mother of Army Spc. Jesse Buryj, 21, who was killed in a friendly fire incident in 2004 in Iraq, said...
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...Louis. "I've done nothing without consulting her." The rest is being assembled by Louis and his colleagues for the Ohio repository, where it is due to be exhibited and to go online soon. Says Louis, "We have early film footage, some going back to...
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Source: HighBeam Research, When the spotlight's off.(Scan)(Brief Article)