Amy Goodman
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Army Ranger Widow Confronts Rumsfeld Over Lies That Convinced Her Husband to Join Military
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9:48Now PlayingDemocracyNow.org - Democracy Now! speaks with the widow of a U.S. Army Ranger who confronted former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld about her husband's suicide on Saturday. Ashley Joppa-Hagemann introduced herself to Rumsfeld during a book-signing by handing him a copy of her husband's funeral program at a base south of Tacoma, Washington. She says Rumsfeld inspired her husband to join the Army after 9/11, but he later became disillusioned with the reasons for the war. Her husband, 25-year-old Staff Sergeant Jared Hagemann, killed himself ahead of what his wife says was his eighth deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. His body was found on June 28, 2011, at the Joint Base Lewis McChord in Washington State. More than 18,000 soldiers returned to the Joint Base Lewis McChord from combat tours last year. And while the Army says it is trying to shore up mental health services there, Joppa-Hagemann questions its success. "I want to confront the man whose 'lies' led my husband to join the military and some other soldiers -- so many other soldiers," says Joppa-Hagemann. "That is what I wanted to do and what I did." Watch Democracy Now! soon for part 2 of this interview.
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