At 5:30 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 14, someone in Iraq called Jacqueline Butler to tell her, “Your husband has been arrested, read his rights, charged for disobeying a direct order, and now he is being held in a tent.” As soon as Jacqueline hung up, she called her brother and later tried Rep. Bennie Thompson’s office, where she spoke with Michael Montgomery, and then she called The Clarion-Ledger to see if they could help her find some truth in the matter. What did she find? There were other troops’ family members in the Jackson area doing the same thing: They had received similar calls on the same morning.
