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| Father of killed Marine apologizes for burning van |
| 2004-12-20 |
| A happy ending (I think). A man has apologized for setting fire to the van driven by a team of Marines who had come to his house to tell him his son was killed in Iraq.... |
| Posted by:Rafael |
| #5 After the hourlong meeting, everyone stepped outside, and Arredondo saluted and embraced the Marines. That's why I said it was a happy ending. But you're right, there's nothing happy about this story. Poor choice of words on my part. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2004-12-20 6:29:37 PM |
| #4 I still hate this story. I'd have done the same stupid thing, maybe worse, burn down the house, shoot the canary, flush the fish. Jeeezus what an unhappy story. Is there a donation site? Burns are their own punishment. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-12-20 5:27:16 PM |
| #3 He was celebrating his birthday and waiting for his son to call. Instead he gets the word he's been killed. Arredondo grabbed a propane torch and a gasoline can from his garage, yelled at the Marines to leave, smashed a window of their van with a hammer, poured gasoline in the vehicle and climbed inside. As his mother tried to pull him out, he said, he accidentally turned on the torch. The Marines put out the flames on his body. Jackson Memorial Hospital has given him an extended payment plan to pay his $43,000 bill for burns that covered 26 percent of his body. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-12-20 3:04:44 PM |
| #2 Mighty nice of those Marines not to press charges. I sure as hell wouldn't have been a model of restraint in that situation. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-20 2:45:21 PM |
| #1 Words fail, sometimes. This be one. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-20 5:23:27 AM |