From Newsday, 7/22/07:
I am walking in Rosedale on this day early in the week while I wait for
the funeral of Army soldier Le Ron Wilson, who died at age 18 in Iraq.
He was 17 1/2 when he had his mother sign his enlistment papers at the
Jamaica recruiting office. If she didn’t, he told her, he would just
wait for the months to his 18th birthday and go in anyway. He graduated
from Thomas Edison High School at noon one day in May. He left right
away for basic training. He came home in a box last weekend. He had a
fast war.
The war was there to take his life because George Bush started it with bold-faced lies…
…That president had been in charge of a government that kidnapped,
tortured, lied, intercepted mail and calls, all in the name of opposing
people who are willing to kill themselves right in front of you. You
have to get rid of a government like this. Ask anybody in Rosedale,
where Le Ron Wilson wanted to live his young life. His grave speaks out
that this is an impeachable offense.