LOSS OF JAMIEL SHAW’S LIFE TRANSCENDS SPORTS By Diane M. Grassi
“I’m safer, somewhat, in Iraq than my son is on the streets of the United States. …My country let me down.”
–Sgt. Anita Shaw, United States Army
March 2, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA was no different than any other in the crime-ridden areas of the City of Angels where the homicide rate has risen by 27% since the same time period in 2007. What differentiates March 2, 2008 from other days, however, is that in areas not well known to be crime-ridden, where residents in communities try to get by in doing right by their neighbors, there is a war brewing for which they are unarmed.
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