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...Another reservist, Lynndie R. England, 21, told her mother in January about potential problems at the Iraq prison.
England grew up in a trailer down a dirt road behind a saloon and a sheep farm in Fort Ashby, W.Va., a one-stoplight town about 13 miles south of Cumberland.
Yesterday afternoon, her mother, Terrie England, pressed her fingers to her lips when a reporter showed her a newspaper photo of her daughter smiling in front of what a caption said were nude Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.
"Oh, my God," she said, her body stiffening as she sat on a cooler on the trailer's small stoop.
"I can't get over this," she said, taking a drag on her cigarette.
Lynndie England, a railroad worker's daughter who made honor roll at the high school near here, had enlisted in the 372nd for college money and the chance to widen her small-town horizons. In January, however, she gave her family the first inkling that something had gone woefully wrong.
"I just want you to know that there might be some trouble," she warned her mother in a phone call from Baghdad. "But I don't want you to worry."
Lynndie England said she was under orders to say no more. The military has told the family nothing; all the Englands know is that she has been detained, apparently in connection with the unit's alleged misconduct at the prison.
"Whether she's charged or not, I don't know," Terrie England said... MORE
Replies: 6 comments
Mrs. England, if that's you're take on it, and you raised your daughter to believe that the atrocities she participated/orchestrated in Iraq were that, you should apologize to the Iraqi people.
They expected very little, but what they got was far worse than ever imagined. Like your daughter, I give you an enthusiastic "thumbs up" as Mother's Day approaches. Thanks for nothing.
Posted by Irishman @ 05/05/2004 09:51 PM EST
Mrs. England, if that's you're take on it, and you raised your daughter to believe that the atrocities she participated/orchestrated in Iraq were that, you should apologize to the Iraqi people.
They expected very little, but what they got was far worse than ever imagined. Like your daughter, I give you an enthusiastic "thumbs up" as Mother's Day approaches. Thanks for nothing.
Posted by Irishman @ 05/05/2004 09:51 PM EST
Mrs. England, if that's you're take on it, and you raised your daughter to believe that the atrocities she participated/orchestrated in Iraq were that, you should apologize to the Iraqi people.
They expected very little, but what they got was far worse than ever imagined. Like your daughter, I give you an enthusiastic "thumbs up" as Mother's Day approaches. Thanks for nothing.
Posted by Irishman @ 05/05/2004 09:52 PM EST
Mrs. England, if that's you're take on it, and you raised your daughter to believe that the atrocities she participated/orchestrated in Iraq were that, you should apologize to the Iraqi people.
They expected very little, but what they got was far worse than ever imagined. Like your daughter, I give you an enthusiastic "thumbs up" as Mother's Day approaches. Thanks for nothing.
Posted by Irishman @ 05/05/2004 09:53 PM EST
Mrs. England, if that's you're take on it, and you raised your daughter to believe that the atrocities she participated/orchestrated in Iraq were that, you should apologize to the Iraqi people.
They expected very little, but what they got was far worse than ever imagined. Like your daughter, I give you an enthusiastic "thumbs up" as Mother's Day approaches. Thanks for nothing.
Posted by Irishman @ 05/05/2004 09:54 PM EST
Mrs. England, if that's you're take on it, and you raised your daughter to believe that the atrocities she participated/orchestrated in Iraq were that, you should apologize to the Iraqi people.
They expected very little, but what they got was far worse than ever imagined. Like your daughter, I give you an enthusiastic "thumbs up" as Mother's Day approaches. Thanks for nothing.
Posted by Irishman @ 05/05/2004 09:57 PM EST
