One motivated Marine
After being imprisoned for ten years on a rape conviction that recently was thrown out, Sgt. Brian Foster might expected to be a bitter man. No, he is not, he said after his release. “I told [the Marines] I was happy to be back in the Marine Corps and that I’ll go anywhere and do ...
After being imprisoned for ten years on a rape conviction that recently was thrown out, Sgt. Brian Foster might expected to be a bitter man. No, he is not, he said after his release. “I told [the Marines] I was happy to be back in the Marine Corps and that I’ll go anywhere and do anything the Marine Corps wants me to,” Foster told a reporter after being released from the “Little House” at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. “I said I love my country and I love the Marine Corps and that unfortunately, these things happen in a free country.”
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Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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