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Monday, January 3, 2011

Ex-Pentagon aide killed, dumped in Del. River landfill
John Parsons Wheeler III

John Parsons Wheeler 3d, a Vietnam veteran officer who served in three GOP presidential administrations, and who chaired the committee that raised funds from businesses, agencies and prominent Americans to get the Vietnam Veterans Memorial built on the Washington Mall, was found dead in a landfill a few miles from his New Castle, Delaware home this weekend. Newark, Del. police say this is a homicide.

Wheeler, a Yale Law School graduate, was a defense industry consultant whose last government job was assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force in the last George W. Bush administration. He  had lately campaigned to return ROTC to Ivy League campuses, writes James Fallows of the Atlantic here. He'd quarreled with neighbors, says the Wilmington News-Journal here.
Posted by Joseph N. DiStefano @ 10:44 AM  Permalink | 18 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:39 AM, 01/03/2011
    suspicious
    — karona
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:44 AM, 01/03/2011
    Where was Tom Capano when he disappeared?
    — TheGuyfromPhilly
  • 0 like this / 1 don't   •   Posted 12:33 PM, 01/03/2011
    This does not bode well for ex-Bush aides.
    — He Visto Todo
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:06 PM, 01/03/2011
    rotc to ivy league schools...isnt that kind of like an oxymoron?
    — tdoc
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:09 PM, 01/03/2011
    RIP.Its a disgrace that ROTC programs are not on Ivy League campuses.
    Without soldiers there would be NO freedom.
    — 5 Finger Death Punch
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:12 PM, 01/03/2011
    You can't pick your neighbors...
    — PhillySubsMac
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:12 PM, 01/03/2011
    It's a shame that personal quarrels lead to murder. Farmers and money brought freedom, not soldiers.
    — HandNik
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:25 PM, 01/03/2011
    HandNick- go back and read your history of the US. It was farmers, merchants and other who became citizen soldiers that brought freedom, and 80 years after that did it again to preserve the US.
    — jcc1960
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:43 PM, 01/03/2011
    Please assign George Anastasia to this investigation as soon as possible. There is a lot going on - start with the New Castle construction issue.
    — IBCeer
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:42 PM, 01/03/2011
    So any nation with soldiers must be a free nation.
    — ahab
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:10 PM, 01/03/2011
    people who joke at others' deaths are pathetic.
    — theanswer80333
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:06 PM, 01/03/2011
    I bet he knew too much...
    — dexter55
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:47 PM, 01/03/2011
    This just does not read right. Dumped in a landfill! This reads like a hit...
    — Anne Arkey


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Joseph N. DiStefano writes this blog to feed his PhillyDeals column in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Joe has been a member of Bloomberg LP’s New York Finance Team, wrote the book “Comcasted,” taught writing at St. Joseph’s University, and studied economics and history at Penn. Reach Joe at 215-854-5194 and JoeD@phillynews.com
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