Bush pardons Jehovah's Witness

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  • Preston
    Preston

    According to the news today:

    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021223/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_pardons_7

    Bush pardoned 7 people today (the first seven of his presidency). They were for the most part unknown for their crimes: making unlicensed whiskey, altering an odometer, stealing copper wire...you know..unimportant crap. Anyway, one of the pardons surprised me:

    _Douglas Harley Rogers of Brookfield, Wis. A Jehovah's Witnesses minister sentenced to two years in jail in 1957 for failing to report for military induction.

    A nice gesture I must say. Did anyone know Douglas?

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