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When my oldest son, a Marine, left for war and crossed the border from Kuwait into Iraq in March 2003 I started writing my conscience. After two tours that young combat veteran, my first born son, is now permanently disabled suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and his mother is now an ardent peace activist. Today I am active with Veterans for Peace, Military Families Speak Out and on the board of Rural Organizing Project Also, I am CEO of Rogue River Wind, Ltd and the inventor of a low profile wind turbine incorporating a high bandwidth relativistic generator

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Letter to the editor re: Philippa Benson

July 16th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

The fol­low­ing let­ter to the edi­tor was sent to the Coquille Val­ley Sen­tinel today in response to Philippa Benson’s per­sonal attacks upon me in last week’s edi­tion. The sender was kind enough to send me a copy and we will see if the paper prints it.

Regard­ing Philippa Benson’s rant against Mary Geddry, Mary was in Wash­ing­ton, DC, the week her eight year old daugh­ter was bit­ten. She reported the bite as soon as her daugh­ter told her and they did their best to fig­ure out the exact day it hap­pened. I know this because I was a wit­ness in the case.

Ben­son says her dog has never bit­ten any­one but that is not true. Her dog bit me, three times on a ser­vice call to her house. Ben­son knew the dog bit me. I did not report this to the police but I did put it on the ser­vice record. I told the dis­trict attor­ney this and they dis­missed the charges.

Wes Cragts

There was also a ten­ant of Mrs Ben­son present dur­ing this ser­vice call. The ten­ant and Mrs Ben­son were argu­ing, we heard the argu­ment next door and the ten­ant left in anger, per­ma­nently. This per­son may have also seen the dog bit­ing Wes Cragts and did reside there when my daugh­ter says she was bitten.

UPDATE A typ­ing error incor­rectly listed Wes’ last name — the cor­rect spelling is Craggs.

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  1. Comment by excuuuuuuse me! on 17 July 2007:

    I wait with baited breath for Ms Philip­ine Ben­son to respond, “what say you, Philipine?”

    Maybe we could take a col­lec­tion and get her a medal which states: COQUILLES’ FRIENDLIEST NEIGHBOR — NOT!

    My words to P Ben­son — Mean Peo­ple Suck! Try to do some­thing pos­i­tive for your com­mu­nity, it may actu­ally allow you to be pleas­ant, for a change, or at least honest.

    Your tirades are get­ting tire­some. Get a life.

    Have a great day, Philip­ine, if you can do that with­out try­ing to harm your neigh­bors, which seems very dif­fi­cult for you, I know, but maybe, if you tried really, really hard, you could man­age it. But per­haps life seems very lonely for you with­out con­flict and threats. Poor ‘ol thang.

    Oh, and what about that dog bite thing? Are you going to call Wes Cragts a liar pub­licly? Has your dog bit­ten peo­ple or not?

    You stated the oppo­site, which is it Philipine?

    We’re wait­ing.

  2. Comment by magix on 17 July 2007:

    This woman would not have been encour­aged or suc­cess­ful in her cru­sade against my fam­ily or in her self inflicted dis­grace were it not for the will­ing com­plic­ity of her ‘friends’. Sad as that is, it is a grim real­ity of this small community.

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