"As far as I know from personal experience and talking to other vets, particularly since 9/11, recruiters promise all kinds of benefits and promise young people that they wonât have to go to war at all. Thatâs what Caseyâs recruiter told him in 2000. âTell your mom, even if there is a war, you wonât see combat, because you are such a high-value recruit.â Casey was killed in combat a few days after arriving in Iraq."
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âBush Was No Betterâ Than Donald Trump, Daily Beast (23 November 2017)
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Cindy Sheehan
Cindy Sheehan (born July 10, 1957) is an American anti-Iraq war activist and the mother of US Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, who was killed in action at age 24 in Sadr City, Iraq, on April 4, 2004, just five days after arriving in the country for duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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