NYC kids send anti-war letters to soldier
Fox News
02/22/05
The New York City Department of Education, red-faced over Brooklyn sixth-graders who slammed a GI with demoralizing anti-Iraq-war letters as part of a school assignment, will send the 20-year-old private a letter of apology Tuesday. Deputy Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina, who has a nephew serving in Iraq, plans to personally contact Pfc. Rob Jacobs and his family, said department spokeswoman Michele McManus Higgins. 'She knows how difficult it is to have a loved one in a war zone,' Higgins said. Jacobs is stationed 10 miles from the North Korean border and who has been told he may be headed to Iraq in the near future. The GI got the ranting missives last month from pint-sized pen pals at JHS 51 in Park Slope. Filled with political diatribes, the letters predict GIs will die by the tens of thousands, accuse soldiers of killing Iraqi civilians and bash President Bush...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148364,00.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
02/22/05
The New York City Department of Education, red-faced over Brooklyn sixth-graders who slammed a GI with demoralizing anti-Iraq-war letters as part of a school assignment, will send the 20-year-old private a letter of apology Tuesday. Deputy Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina, who has a nephew serving in Iraq, plans to personally contact Pfc. Rob Jacobs and his family, said department spokeswoman Michele McManus Higgins. 'She knows how difficult it is to have a loved one in a war zone,' Higgins said. Jacobs is stationed 10 miles from the North Korean border and who has been told he may be headed to Iraq in the near future. The GI got the ranting missives last month from pint-sized pen pals at JHS 51 in Park Slope. Filled with political diatribes, the letters predict GIs will die by the tens of thousands, accuse soldiers of killing Iraqi civilians and bash President Bush...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148364,00.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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