Tattoo artist dismisses reasons given for invasion.Byline: The Register-Guard Name: Diane DIANE Diversified Information and Assistance Network (Tennessee Valley Authority) DIANE Direct Information Access Network for Europe DIANE Digital Integrated Attack and Navigation Equipment Gruver, 44 Interviewed: At Tattoo by Design tattoo parlor, Eugene Eugene, city (1990 pop. 112,669), seat of Lane co., W Oregon, on the Willamette River; inc. 1862. A processing and shipping center in a farming area, the "Emerald City" has lumbering, food-processing, and microchip and other electronics industries. Background: Employed as tattooist/office manager for 8 1/2 years "I think war should be the absolute last resort and I feel we jumped the gun way too early, so to speak," says Diane Gruver of Eugene. "The reasons we're we're Contraction of we are. we're we are being given for this war are not probably the reasons we are there. I believe it's for the economic development of corporations and doesn't have a damn thing to do with democracy." Gruver says she hasn't seen an increase in clients requesting patriotic tattoos, but has noticed older veterans coming in to study the books of military tattoos A military tattoo, is a military drum performance. It dates from the seventeenth century when the British Army were fighting in the Low Countries (Belgium and The Netherlands). . "For older vets, it's a painful time," she says. "You think of the soldiers who fought and died at Normandy and you feel an aching sadness. But to see this, where people are being killed and you don't feel it's a just war, is very painful." - Jeff Wright Jeff Wright can refer to:
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