Jamiel’s Law
By The Editors
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, November 24, 2008



Sergeant Anita Shaw’s Army unit was on the way home from a tour in Iraq in early March when she got word that the chaplain wanted to see her. Such a summons always raises questions in a soldier. Shaw wondered if there might be a problem with her job performance or a personality problem she hadn’t noticed with someone in her squad. Having survived the mayhem in Baghdad for six months, the last thing she imagined was that the summons involved a murder back home. But when she got to the chaplain’s office, her commanding officer was waiting. After asking her to sit down, he told her the bad news: “Anita, your son has been murdered.â€