I recently received an invitation to a banquet in honor of a young Cleveland native killed in 2005 while serving as a gunner in Iraq. Last week, meanwhile, an Akron native now plying his trade in Miami sent the following tweet:
A certain Akron native's Miami mansion- not exactly a Baghdad shanty.
“20+ games left in phase 2. I’m ReFOCUSED! No prisoners, I have no friends when at WAR besides (sic) my Soldiers.”
Unlike the tragically killed Clevelander, the former Akronite has never been to war, and in fact when not playing professional basketball lives quite comfortably in his $9 million, six-bedroom mansion overlooking Biscayne Bay outside of South Beach. I don’t know the guy personally, although I’d bet green money that he dashed off his “war” missive without a second thought of its ramifications or meaning - this despite numerous examples over the years of his athletic contemporaries getting scolded for using military imagery when it comes to their far safer professions.
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A certain Akron native's Miami mansion- not exactly a Baghdad shanty.
“20+ games left in phase 2. I’m ReFOCUSED! No prisoners, I have no friends when at WAR besides (sic) my Soldiers.”
Unlike the tragically killed Clevelander, the former Akronite has never been to war, and in fact when not playing professional basketball lives quite comfortably in his $9 million, six-bedroom mansion overlooking Biscayne Bay outside of South Beach. I don’t know the guy personally, although I’d bet green money that he dashed off his “war” missive without a second thought of its ramifications or meaning - this despite numerous examples over the years of his athletic contemporaries getting scolded for using military imagery when it comes to their far safer professions.
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