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A soldier's dilemma and honorable action.

Written by: womenslegacy
Published: September 15, 2006 -- Last Modified: September 15, 2006
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Justin Watts is an honorable man. A local Tucson man showed a strength of character that few possess and fewer still can maintain when confronted with horrific knowledge that if disclosed will permanently alter untold numbers of lives and indeed the course of a nation.

Justin is the man who voiced his concern about what his brothers in arms appeared to have done — raped a young teenage girl and then killed her and her family. The story is here in the Arizona Daily Star.

What amazed me is comment 63 on this story.

I’m very happy this man [Justin] was so brave to come forward. He is a hero to me and to my kids now. He will never know how much he helped my family alone. One of the soldiers he told on is my husband. He used to beat me and make me sleep on the floor while pregnant. In april he was home on a leave and he wanted me to be alone with him but i said no. I’ve been trying to divorce him for more than 2 years now and i had a restraining order against him. He violated it so many times that I had to move. I told the army what was going on and they did not help at all. they left me with no option but to run and hide. Now thanks to Justin watt, my children are safe and so am I. God bless him and I hope things get better for him.

This is a neglected aspect of the horrific situation our country faces. Violence begets violence. Allowing violence upon women is symptomatic of a cultural suppression of morality. Thank you Justin for keeping the tiny spark of belief in the essense of good alive within me. This heinous war is creating a generation of military vets who have been wounded in unimaginable ways — scars unlike anything ever before seen are forming.

Thank you Justin for showing me that although our troops are being asked to ignore international law and conventions, and because of this evil cultivation are having their darkest sides emerge that men and womenof character are refusing to go along with an immoral status quo. Justin and those others who will now step forward because of his bravery, along the folks who are refusing to go back to fight in this immoral attrocity, are showing that Americans still have among them the best, the brightest, and the most honorable citizens who serve because they believe in justice and what Americans hold in their hearts as the essence of what our country is and can be.

Let us all send safe energies to him, pray for his safety, and for this shining example of courage to be followed and to inspire other soldiers to do what is right and just.

Breathe in courage. Breathe out action.

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Categories: UncategorizedTags: 101st Airborne, Army, courage, ethics, Iraq, Justin Watt, Mahmoudiya, murder, rape

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  1. chelsea merz

    September 28, 2006 at 1:45 pm

    Greetings,

    I’m a producer for a national public radio show Open Source, http://www.radioopensource.org.

    We are producing an election series, focusing on many states across the US. Next Monday we are broadcasting a show on AZ’s 8th congressional district, http://www.radioopensource.org/elections-06-the-arizona-8th/. We always aspire to bring bloggers into this conversation and your blog caught our attention. It’s nice to get a perspective on politics from those who are not directly enmeshed in a campaign. Would you be interested in possibly participating in this show? What we normally do is record a phone interview, which we then play during our live broadcast.

    Please email me if this prospect appeals to you and we can schedule a time to talk. chelsea@radioopensource.org

    Best, Chelsea

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  2. Zelph

    October 22, 2006 at 9:59 pm

    Google Bomb the midterms.

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