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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jul 29, 2004 05:05pm |
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| Category | News |
| News Date | Thursday, July 29, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By JOAN LOWY
Scripps Howard News Service
July 27, 2004
BOSTON - Wearing a trim navy sports coat, an open-collared shirt and neatly pressed slacks, a touch of gray lightening the edges of his carefully trimmed black hair, Jack Buckner, 61, could have been mistaken for a congressman or television anchorman as he stood a short distance off the floor at the Democratic National Convention.
What gave Buckner away was the ramrod straight stance so typical of an Army ranger, which is what he was for 33 years before retiring last August and returning home to Montgomery, Ala.
At a convention heavily populated by veterans who are outspoken in their support for Democrat John Kerry and their opposition to President Bush, Buckner's criticisms of the administration's handling of the war in Iraq carry special weight. The lieutenant colonel was deputy commander of special operations in Afghanistan before his retirement. |
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