Posted on 04/04/2011 5:44:21 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
Matthew VanDyke didn't go into Libya to be in the middle of a war.
The 31-year-old freelance journalist from Baltimore thought Moammar Gadhafi would be ousted from power by the time he arrived in early March. He would report on the changes sweeping the country and help friends he had met on previous visits build a new country.
But VanDyke hasn't been heard from since mid-March, when he called his mother and girlfriend on a cellphone with a scratchy connection while on a truck headed from the rebel stronghold of Benghazi to the town of Brega.
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The journalist decided not to travel to Cairo during the unrest there, mostly because his ties to that country were not as strong as in other places. But he had been to Libya in 2008 and had fallen in love with the people, friends and family say.
When his friends started emailing him and telling him what was going on, he felt he had to go to support them morally," said his mother, Sharon VanDyke, who lives in South Baltimore's Riverside neighborhood and recently retired after 42 years as a city schoolteacher. "He didn't go off with the intent of being in a war. He thought Gadhafi would be overthrown. He thought he could help his friends start a new government."
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
With any luck he did... only problem is he can’t report on what America is turning into.
Unless of course, he’s like Geraldo and is making up a story.
THOUGHT Daffy would be gone?....NEVER trust what Obama says.
So this so called journalist, knew obummer was going after daffy the first of march. HOW????
He’s safer in Libya.......
He’s safer in Libya.......
...than his mother is in Riverside.
Yu stick your head in the Lion’s mouth. Don’t blame the lion for biting you.
Darwin Award nominee.
Umm, not. Riverside is not bad at all, its the southern part of Federal Hill. Jenna Bush lives there, for one.
(Am guessing his phone has not been in use; or they would have included this in story. . .not that I would 'assume'. . .)
My son lives there too. Jenna Bush just moved.
Did she? My daughter lived around the corner from her, and never saw her. I wonder if she spent much time there at all..
Did she? My daughter lived around the corner from her, and never saw her. I wonder if she spent much time there at all..
My son lives on Fort Ave. I don’t think he even KNEW she lived nearby. (He’s a right-winger but not overly political!)
The Bush girl sold the house recently but I don’t know where they moved. Frankly I hope to never see the Bush’s again.
Ya, out with da Bushes. Good riddance... BTW, I think she lived on Charles, a couple blocks north of Fort.
An old article; just for info.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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