Posted by: McQ on Wednesday, August 01, 2007 I had the opportunity to talk with Darryl Sharratt, father of LCpl Jason Sharratt, one of the Haditha Marines, last week on Pundit Review Radio. As you recall, Rep. John Murtha peremptorily declared these Marines to be cold-blooded murderers who snapped under the pressure of multiple deployments and killed a number of civilians. This was politically expedient since at the time, he was arguing that the military was "broken", and he had no qualms at all about using the incident politically and throwing the Marines under the bus of public opinion. The irony, as it happens, is Darryl Sharratt's congressional representative happens to be the very same John Murtha. Darryl Sharratt tried 53 times over 18 months to talk with Murtha about what he'd said and done concerning the incident all to no avail. However since the Article 32 investigation found that the forensic evidence completely supported Jason Sharratt's story and doesn't at all support the government charges (and Murtha's story), and recommended they be dropped, it seems Murtha found the wherewithal to actually talk with him on the phone. You can listen here to that conversation. I can't imagine the agony that family has gone through as this has wended its way through the military's legal process, but you can get an idea by listening to the emotion in Darryl's voice as he describes the ordeal. As an aside, the Someone You Should Know segment is up and it is about a young soldier who, alone, wounded and armed only with a pistol, charged insurgents who had ambushed him and for that heroic action, was awarded the Silver Star. Worth the listen, even if I say so myself. ;) |
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