1.0 link 100030 <![CDATA[My Friend's Son Killed in Iraq: By Contractors and U.S. Agency?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/my-friends-son-killed-in_b_100030.html Last night, I was surprised and happy to find a photograph of my friend Cheryl Harris at the top of the New York Times' web site. She was hugging her young son, Ryan Maseth, an Army sergeant who was dressed in his uniform and cap. The were both smiling broadly. A few months later he was dead. The military told her this past January that he had foolishly carried an electrical appliance into a shower in Baghdad.

That was a...

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