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To: Skywatcher who wrote (564025)	4/13/2004 3:46:26 PM
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Slain soldier's family is bitter the Associated Press DUNN - The family of an Army sergeant who died in Iraq this week was mourning over Easter weekend at the house of the grandparents who raised him. Sgt. 1st Class Marvin L. Miller, 38, of Dunn died Wednesday in Balad when he was shot while on traffic control duty. The Pentagon said the shooting is still being investigated. Some members of Miller's Harnett County family were struggling to justify to themselves his deployment to Iraq. "Is it a good cause?" asked his sister, Miriam Smith. "No, not really. They're over there trying to help the people, and they're steady killing them." Miller's cousin Felicia Smith of Raleigh and aunt Annie Miller concurred. "It stinks," Annie Miller said. "The president got us into something he doesn't know how to get out of. It seems like the more killing that goes on over there, the more troops he's sending." The family remembered an outgoing, friendly man devoted to the Army and to his family. "He loved to party, and he loved his girls," Smith said. Miller had two daughters and two sons with Linnett Miller, his wife of 12 years. The 18-year military veteran was assigned to the Army's 1st Squadron, 4th U.S. Cavalry, 1st Infantry Division, Schweinfurt, Germany. The family had been living in Germany for about two years. Miller's eldest child, Marvin Lee Miller Jr., said he no longer wants to follow his father's footsteps and go into the Army after high school. "I was going into the military, but not no more," he said on the porch of his father's childhood home. "Not after this." Funeral arrangements were not available Saturday. posted 12 april 2004