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Another sickening death in Boston

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While every violent death in my city has saddened and angered me, the event described in this Globe story is particularly disgusting. 

Soldier survives Iraq but not Boston

By Maria Cramer and Brian Ballou, Globe Staff

RANDOLPH — James L. Jacobs served nearly a year as a US Army sergeant in Iraq, where he saw combat and witnessed children being blown up.

He came home in August 2004, moved in with his mother in Randolph, and started working as a mortgage consultant for a Mattapan lending firm. After nearly five years in the Army and far from battle, he was struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, but his family thought he was finally safe.

Friday night, he was shot and killed outside a friend’s house on McLellan Street in Dorchester, less than a mile from Rosseter Street, where he grew up.

I don’t have anything more to say.  My thoughts are with his family, friends, and fellow soldiers.

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    On April 19th, a coalition of 50 community, youth, labor, faith and service organizations are planning a march to the State House for jobs and CORI reform.

    The practice of criminal record (CORI) based discrimination is preventing tens of thousands of Massachusetts residents from obtaining jobs, housing, loans and financial aid.  While Governor Patrick agrees that the CORI system is broken, we must show our legislators that the time for change is now.

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    blockquote>In the wake of a ten-year high in teen homicides in Boston, the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute is preparing for its 10th Annual Mothers’ Walk for Peace. The Walk reaches out to families statewide who have lost loved ones due to violence and takes place Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 14, 8:30 A.M. starting in Dorchester’s Townsfield Park (Field’s Corner).

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