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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (133535)	5/19/2004 1:39:35 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The Jimmy Massey story is getting some traction. Here's the first media report, from a newspaper where he lived. Predictably, it's a lot less florid than what we are seeing now. And contains a lot less damaging information than that which he provided to the SacBee: themountaineer.com This report now has Massey describing officers instructing their men at drills to throw candy in school yards, then kill the kids. 216.239.39.104 Massey is now a member of a veterans group against the war. I'd say that the truth of the Massey story is somewhere along these lines: A sensitive Marine who has been assigned to recruiting during most of his career is suddenly thrust into combat, then is overwhelmed by the chaos of war. He turns into an antiwar activist in order to compensate for the cognitive dissonance inherent in leaving the Armed Forces. In the process, his accounts of what he saw become increasingly alarming, witness the Mountaineer article in which he originally says that the vehicle that his squad shot up was given a warning volley which it ignored to shooting up vehicles without cause.