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Marriages become casualties of Iraq war
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Nov 15, 2004 02:37pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Oregonian, The (Portland) |
| News Date | Monday, November 15, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Spc. David Deckert's Dear John letter came in an e-mail, a simple message his wife had tapped out in shorthand on her cell phone: "I dont want to be with u im leaving you im sorry."
Deckert, 22, of Albany, stared at the message in disbelief.
The note forecast a far different end to his marriage than the mechanic could have guessed when he left home 13 months ago -- but one increasingly common among the more than 700 soldiers deployed as part of the Oregon Army National Guard's longest overseas mission since World War II.
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