"Marine veteran wins weekly lottery payoff" Globe Staff, March 29, 2013
A Marine Corps veteran who has been attending Quinsigamond Community College on the GI Bill just got a huge financial boost.
Ryan Bartholomew of Worcester won a Massachusetts State Lottery scratch ticket game that will pay him $2,500 a week for life, less taxes, lottery officials said in a statement.
Bartholomew claimed the prize on Friday in the $2,500 A Week For Life game, the lottery said.
The $5 ticket was purchased at Holly Farms in Webster. Bartholomew’s grandfather gave it to him as a birthday present.
His 26th birthday is Saturday, said lottery spokeswoman Beth Bresnahan.
Bartholomew was discharged from the Marine Corps in January 2012. He indicated that he plans to bank the money and save for the future, according to lottery officials.
The lottery also announced Friday that Stephen Whynot, a retiree from Newton, won a $1 million prize.
Is that a real name or have we stumbled on fraud?
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"Hundreds attend funeral for Marine killed in blast
More than 1,000 mourners paid tribute Friday to a Marine from Connecticut who was killed in a training exercise explosion in Nevada. The funeral for Lance Corporal Roger Muchnick Jr., 23, was held at a church in Lenox, his maternal grandparents’ hometown. He was buried next to his great-uncle, William Coakley, a Navy pilot killed during the Vietnam War. Muchnick, who served tours in Kuwait and Afghanistan, grew up in Westport, Conn. He was one of seven Marines killed March 18 when a mortar shell exploded in its firing tube during an exercise (AP)."
Related:
"7 Marines die in explosion at Nevada base; Mortar is cited in blast that also injured 6 troops" by Scott Sonner and Ted Bridis | Associated Press, March 20, 2013
HAWTHORNE, Nev. — A mortar shell explosion killed seven Marines and injured a half-dozen more during mountain warfare training in Nevada’s high desert, prompting the Pentagon to immediately halt the use of the weapons until an investigation can determine their safety, officials said Tuesday....
So what war profiteer sold the AmeriKan military defective s***?
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Also see: Young Marines in accident had hopes, dreams for future
The military blamed the victims, huh? They said the same about Clayton Hartwig, too, remember? By now I discount military explanations for anything and everything because it is always immediate cover-up mode.
Related: U.S. Training Terrorists in Nevada
Is that what they are still doing out there?
UPDATE:
"SOLEMN SERVICE -- The family of US Army Specialist Mitchell K. Daehling, who ws killed in Afghanistan, attended funeral services at St. Agnes Church in Dalton Friday. From left: Daehling's widow, Samantha, with his parents Kirk and Brenda Daehling (Boston Globe May 25 2013)."
I'm tired of looking at pictures of parent's tears for kids killed and dead over lies.
"In an emotional ceremony Friday, a New Bedford father was given a Purple Heart and a Marine commemorative coin awarded after the death of his son in Iraq to replace ones stolen from the father’s home earlier this month."
Then I guess it's all worth it.
