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Jay Inslee: I feel very strongly that these are just some of the questions that our government has a duty to answer. One of the…

On the recordFebruary 11, 2004
I feel very strongly that these are just some of the questions that our government has a duty to answer. One of the reasons I feel so strongly about that is that this afternoon, I had a very painful discussion with a family in Bremerton, Washington, with whom I have been working for about a week or two now whose son and husband has been missing in Iraq, a soldier in Iraq. I have been working with this family to try to do what we could to assuage their concerns and make sure that we were doing everything we could to bring him home. Today I had to talk with that family, and they found out this morning that their son and husband would never be returning to them.
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Jay Inslee
Democratic · Washington

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Addressing the impact of the Iraq War on families during a speech.

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