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DEL.ICIO.USText of e-mail from Victor Anderson
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
‘YES THEY WERE MY GUYS’
Sgt. 1st Class Victor Anderson sent this e-mail (reprinted here unedited) to family and friends in Georgia a few days after four of his fellow soldiers were killed July 24 by a bomb. Anderson died six days later in a similar incident.
Subject: I AM OK
HELLO EVERYBODY
WELL I GUESS EVERYONE HAS HEARD THE NEWS YES THEY WERE MY GUYS. THEY FELT NO PAIN I WAS IN THE HUMVEE ABOUT 30 FEET IN FRONT OF THEM ALL GREAT GUYS. I DO NOT LIKE MOST OF THESE IRAQIS THEY ARE ALL LIARS. MAYBE SADAMM HAD THE RIGHT IDEA ON HOW TO CONTROL THEM. THERE NOT ALL BAD OUR INTERPITERS ARE GOOD GUYS. I DO NOT SERVE TO HELP OTHERS I SERVE BECAUSE OF THOSE GUYS TO MY LEFT AND RIGHT THEY ARE MEN OF THERE WORDS, THEY TOOK AN OATH TO DEFEND OUR COUNTRY THEY ARE WHY I CAME HERE NOT SOME IDEOLOGY. THEY STEPD UP AND DID NOT RUN AND HIDE WHEN OUR COUNTRY CALLED. WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IN THIS WAR OR NOT BELIEVE IN THEM BLESS YOU ALL. DONT MEAN TO BRING ANY ONE OF YOU DOWN JUST SAYING WHATS ON MY MIND BE GOOD
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