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Iraq war vet offers no excuses
Seth Strasburg, once a highly decorated member of the U.S. Army with seemingly unlimited potential for advancement, now resides at the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution, serving a sentence of 22 to 36 years on manslau
- CLARENCE MABIN / Lincoln Journal Star
- Mar 29, 2008
- Mar 29, 2008
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“I did a very stupid thing, and I should be in prison,” Seth Strasburg, 30, said in an interview. “There’s nothing in me that thinks that kid should be dead.” (Robert Becker) ROBERT BECKER
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TECUMSEH — By all accounts, Seth Strasburg was a model soldier.
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