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Keith Maupin: 'My boy is coming home'

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The Enquirer - Keith Maupin: 'My boy is coming home'
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Excerpt

The Department of Defense confirmed Monday afternoon what the family of Sgt. Matt Maupin was told on Sunday by Army officials – that human remains found in Iraq were indentified as those of the Clermont County soldier who has been missing for nearly four years.

The official release offered no details on where the remains were found or how they were determined to be those of Maupin, although the Maupin family said Sunday that a three-star general who visited them Sunday in Union Township told them that the remains matched Maupin’s DNA.

The U.S. Army has been searching for the Army reservist and Glen Este High School graduate since April 9, 2004, when his convoy came under attack by insurgents using rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire. Two of Maupin’s fellow soldiers in the 724th Transportation Co. were killed in the attack; and Maupin, then a 20-year-old private first class, was taken hostage.

Maupin had been listed by the Army as “missing and captured” since April 16, 2004, the day when a video was released showing the soldier surrounded by masked men bearing arms.

In the release issued Monday afternoon, the Department of Defense said the Maupin case is still under investigation.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday expressed sympathy for Maupin's family.

"This has been especially difficult for the Maupin family because of not knowing for almost exactly four years. So I want to extend my condolences," Gates said, speaking to reporters on a flight from Brussels to Copenhagen.

President Bush called the Maupins Sunday night with condolences. Bush had met with the family several times to assure them the U.S. would keep searching for their son.

At the Reds Opening Day parade today, people cheered and put their hands over their hearts as Maupin's parents rode as planned in the Opening Day parade.

A sign in front of the PT Cruiser in which the Maupins were riding said: “All gave some, some gave all.” On the back: “Freedom isn’t free.”

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Comment:

Fuck you idiots for turning them into yet another slogan opportunity.

The family finally has peace of mind, and some pig fucker in the parade has the sack to wave a fucking slogan in their faces?

Fuck the war sloganeers. Fuck George Dubya Bush. Fuck the war. Fuck Dick Cheney. Fuck Halliburton. Fuck Blackwater. And?

Fuck you if you buy the bullshit.

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leftparadise

"All gave some..." what some ? what some did all of us give ? our future financial security when we went shopping at the behest of our cheerleader in cheif ? bullshit
Some certainly did give all, but very few of those some were the ardent beaters of the drums of war, the young republicans, the children of the republican high and mighty.