Marine Recruiter-Turned-'Peacenik' Under Fire From Military And Town

Recruiter-turned-peacenik hits nerve in N.C.
By Rick Hampson, USA TODAY

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-03-20-recruiter-peacenik_x.htm

WAYNESVILLE, N.C. — If you were young and tough and wanted a challenge, Jimmy Massey was the man to see. He was gung ho. He was Semper Fi. He was the strutting, cussing, tobacco-chewing Marine recruiter.

The staff sergeant won scores of recruits in this and other patriotic mountain towns by talking courage, honor, commitment. Then, following his own adage — "you gotta walk the walk" — he went to Iraq.

That was two years ago, before Massey left the Marines, returned to Waynesville, and began saying things about the war that make people wonder whether they really knew him in the first place. These days Massey carries a sign around town that says he killed Iraqi civilians. He confesses to having enticed some recruits with false promises, and encouraged others to lie on applications. He has gone to Canada to testify for an Army deserter seeking asylum, and he has spoken at peace rallies.

He left a Marine recruiter and returned a peacenik.

This is the story of a veteran and the town to which he returned — a town that no longer recognizes the man who once preached the leatherneck gospel and now has a whole different sermon.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-03-20-recruiter-peacenik_x.htm

Who says there's none left?

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My familiy is from that area. Lot's of patriotic, Baptist mountain folks up that way.

denying his account, questioning his mental state, etc.

The public will CHOOSE to not believe him.

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embodies the TRUE IDEALS of the promise that was America.