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Feb. 7th, 2006
Thanks for all your replies to the health post. I'm very humbled by peoples empathy and willingness to help. I'm going to make it out of this. I do feel arrogant & stupid for letting health care lapse and stupid for not doing the doctor thing sooner.
Why they Fight Someone Elses War
Feb. 7th, 2006 11:59 pmEverking
Wounded Soldier pays for armor: Army demands $700 from man who was wounded
Scott Horton
"We're not normally one for political statements here at everking towers but the news that the UK has lost over 100 soldiers in IRAQ spurred us to share this. This is a song from the new EP "2K at G's" - frankly we'd love to know what you think."
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Wounded Soldier pays for armor: Army demands $700 from man who was wounded
The last time 1st Lt. William “Eddie” Rebrook IV saw his body armor, he was lying on a stretcher in Iraq, his arm shattered and covered in blood. A field medic tied a tourniquet around Rebrook’s right arm to stanch the bleeding from shrapnel wounds. Soldiers yanked off his blood-soaked body armor. He never saw it again. But last week, Rebrook was forced to pay $700 for that body armor, blown up by a roadside bomb more than a year ago. He was leaving the Army for good because of his injuries. He turned in his gear at his base in Fort Hood, Texas. He was informed there was no record that the body armor had been stripped from him in battle. He was told to pay nearly $700 or face not being discharged for weeks, perhaps months. Rebrook, 25, scrounged up the cash from his Army buddies and returned home to Charleston last Friday.
“I last saw the [body armor] when it was pulled off my bleeding body while I was being evacuated in a helicopter,” Rebrook said. “They took it off me and burned it.”
Scott Horton
Tuesday the 31st, on the KAOS Report, I talked with Eugene Jarecki, the director-producer of Why We Fight, a new documentary about Ike's warning and the misplaced power of the Military-Industrial-Complex.
It begins with short clips of Eisenhower and Bill Hicks.
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