From: Bill Lucy 


Mr. Northern:

I am a Veteran of the Iraq war, having served with the 4th Infantry
Division on the initial invasion with Force Package One.

While I was in Iraq,a very good friend of mine, Christopher Cutchall,was
killed in an unarmoredHMMWV outside of Baghdad. He was a cavalry scout
serving with the 3d ID.Once he had declined the award of a medal because
Soldiers assigned to him did not receive similar awards that he had
recommended. He left two sons and awonderful wife. On Monday night, August
16, you ran down the memorial cross erected for him by Arlington West.

One of my Soldiers in Iraq was Roger Turner. We gave him a hard time
because he always wore all of his protective equipment, including three
pairs of glasses or goggles. He did this because he wanted to make sure
that he returned home to his family. He rode a bicycle to work every day to
make sure that he was able to save enough money on his Army salary to send
his son to college. At Camp Anaconda, where the squadron briefly stayed, a
rocket landed inside a tent, sending a piece of debris or fragment into him
and killed him. On Monday night, August 16, you ran down the memorial cross
erected for him by Arlington West.

One of my Soldiers was Henry Bacon. He was one of the finest men I ever
met. He was in perfect shape for a man over forty, working hard at night.
He told me that he did that because he didn't have much money to buy nice
things for his wife, who he loved so much, so he had to be in good shape
for her. He was like a father to many young men in his section of
maintenance mechanics. They fixed our vehicles with almost no support and
fabricated parts and made repairs that kept our squadron rolling on the
longest, fastest armor advance ever made under fire. He was so very proud
of his son-in-law that married the beautiful daughter so well raised by
Henry. His son-in-law was a helicopter pilot with the 1st Cavalry Division,
who died last year. Henry stopped to rescue a vehicle belonging to another
unit on what was to be his last day in Iraq. He could have kept rolling -
he was headed to Kuwait after a year's tour. But he stopped. He could have
sent others to do the work, but he was on the ground, leading by example,
when he was killed. On Monday night, August 16, you took it upon yourself
to go out in the country, where a peaceful group was exercising their
constitutional rights, and harming no one, and you ran down the memorial
cross erected for Henry and for his son-in-law by Arlington West.

Mr. Northern - I know little about Cindy Sheehan except that she is a
grieving mother, a gentle soul, and wants to bring harm to no one. I know
little about you except that you found your way to Crawford on Monday night
in August with chains and a pipe attached to your truck for the sole
purpose of dishonoring a memorial erected for my friends and lost Soldiers
and hundreds of others that served this nation when they were called. I
find it disheartening that good men like these have died so that people
like you can threaten a mother who lost a child with your actions. I hope
that you are ashamed of yourself.

Perry Jefferies, First Sergeant, USA (retired)

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