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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

W. and the damage done

President Bush inherited a peaceful, prosperous America. As he exits, Salon consults experts in seven fields to try to assess the devastation.

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 03:36 PM

    Sorry to learn that your brother passed

    He may be the person I'm thinking of who was stationed with me. I was in Motor Transport Platoon, 3rd Combat Engineers Battalion at Camp Hansen in 84 and 85. I was a mechanic and he was a driver. Funny thing is, I was just talking about the guy I knew with the last name of Groenhagen a couple of days ago...it had to do with something that he told our OIC who was named Capt. Kurik. Groenhagen was a pretty funny guy. Again, sorry for your lose.

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