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Thieves hit home while Marine is buried
  • Thieves ransacked the home of an Indiana family while they were attending the funeral of Sgt. Jeanne Winters, a U.S. Marine who lost her life in Pakistan on Jan. 9. Fifty fellow Marines were among the mourners bringing comfort to the Winters family. While they laid their loved one to rest, a thief or thieves broke into their home. Some suspect that the thieves were after cash donations. The family is still assessing what is missing.
    Sometimes you really hope there's a Hell, because some people so thoroughly deserve to go there.
    I'm from Indiana, although I haven't lived there in more than thirty years. But there was a time when, if there was a hell on earth, Gary, IN was pretty much it. It had a downtown that looked like Berlin at the end of WWII. People fled the place as if it were radioactive. Crime was unbelievable - I believe it was one of the murder capitals, back when the slaughter really was unbelievable.

    I hope it's improved over the years - but for a time, Gary was not only the heart of the rust belt, but the blood belt as well.
    Posted by Anonymous 1/27/2002 2:33:31 AM

    Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-01-26
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