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08-27-2005, 06:08 PM
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/metroeast/story/8EEE21152AB642AB862570690050EDF6?OpenDocument&highlight=2
In fact, the newspaper will report today, the man identified as the girl's father was never in Iraq, and it was the woman who apparently wrote the letters and regular columns that were published under the little girl's name - and even impersonated the girl in telephone interviews.
Students and faculty at the newspaper on Thursday were bracing for the reaction of readers who have been deeply touched at little Kodee Kennings' columns, full of earnest pleas for victory over Saddam Hussein and laced with precocious misspellings.
Why the hell would you do this and secondly why wouldn't the newspaper check out her story
In fact, the newspaper will report today, the man identified as the girl's father was never in Iraq, and it was the woman who apparently wrote the letters and regular columns that were published under the little girl's name - and even impersonated the girl in telephone interviews.
Students and faculty at the newspaper on Thursday were bracing for the reaction of readers who have been deeply touched at little Kodee Kennings' columns, full of earnest pleas for victory over Saddam Hussein and laced with precocious misspellings.
Why the hell would you do this and secondly why wouldn't the newspaper check out her story