the face of war

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...at 8:35 p.m. on Jan. 16, Eric, who was in Florida on business, received a phone call from Jonathan, who was staying in an apartment in New Prague, Minn., that Eric owned and where he gave Jonathan a room.

Jonathan told Eric he was in the basement standing on a stool and tying a noose around his neck with an extension cord. A bottle of Captain Morgan rum, three-quarters' full, was at his side, and he was slurring .

"I tried to stall him by being nice, and then I tried getting mad at him, telling him he was taking the easy way out. I told him, 'What about your faith?' I was doing everything I could," said Eric.

"He said: ' The hell with it all, the Marines, the VA, the hell with religion. The hell with it all. I am doing it,' " said Eric.

Then, Eric said, he heard the phone fall to the floor.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 04:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i just watched flags of our fathers with the moms, and i actually thought it was pretty well-done. eastwood got the ridiculous jingoism down to a 't'.

the table is the table (trees), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 04:27 (seventeen years ago) link


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