Iraq Vet Allegedly Caught With Pipe Bombs

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Wed May-02-07 03:02 PM
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Iraq Vet Allegedly Caught With Pipe Bombs

http://www.koin.com/Global/story.asp?S=6451872

PORTLAND - An Iraq war veteran from Oregon has been ordered into a Veterans Affairs hospital after his roommate at a Minnesota college found guns in their dorm room and pipe bombs in his pickup.

A bomb squad was called April 20 to dispose of the two pipe bombs. Ben Ring, a 22-year-old student at Martin Luther College, is charged with felony possession of explosives.

The charges surprised Oregon soldiers who remember Ring as a devout Christian who didn't drink or swear and wanted to become a Lutheran minister.

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geardaddy

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Wed May-02-07 03:05 PM
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1. Not surprising, really.

If he is Missouri or Wisconsin synod.

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iamthebandfanman

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Wed May-02-07 03:05 PM
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2. amazing

thats what our kids are learning in this faux war.

looks like we are gonna hafta start worrying about the terror within once all our men and women come home.
gonna be alot of healing.

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loyalsister

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Wed May-02-07 03:17 PM
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3. wow

I suppose that should be no surprise. But, my gosh how tragic!

Vietnam Vets have always been stereotyped as ""that" war having done something to them." As if there was something particular about the place, the people, and specifically what happened.

Maybe it was because they could barely talk about it while their predescessors joyfully shared army buddy stories.

A different kind of warfare.

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