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Aureliano De La Torre didn't want his son Jesse to join the Marines. "It was his own idea," Aureliano says. "I didn't agree, but there was nothing I could do." As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan unfolded, Jesse grew determined to get involved as he mulled his future and the state of the world from his hometown of Aurora, Ill. He told his father that someone had to do something to stop al-Qaeda. Jesse was a gifted saxophone player, but he didn't want to spend his life playing in nightclubs...
Like many other parents of service members, she had tried her best to persuade him not to join. "You don't want to go over there," she remembers telling him. Genevie idolized his mother. He listed her as his "biggest inspiration" in his 2003 senior yearbook. But joining the military was one thing he had to do on his own, with or without his mother's blessing. Before he left for basic training, Patricia remembers telling him, "I support...
Seidel’s decision to join the race, which he had been considering for at least the past several weeks, came the day after the resignation of State Senator Jarrett T. Barrios ’90. City Councillor Anthony D. Galluccio, who has consistently received the most votes in council elections since 1997, is considered to be one of the leading candidates for the seat...
...tier-John Edwards and Mitt Romney. There's a big jump down to the next tier of declared candidates, none of whom seem to have much of a chance. And there is a possible late entry (Al Gore) or two (Fred Thompson and Newt Gingrich), any of whom would join the first tier...
...Republican primary voters saying they were satisfied with the current crop of candidates running for their party's Presidential nomination, compared with 77% of Democratic primary voters. The door is open far wider for Thompson-and perhaps Gingrich-to enter the G.O.P. race than it is for Gore to join the Democratic contest...