Iraq soldier wins part of $12 million Lotto jackpot

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justxploring — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:42:54 GMT

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Just6ntlc — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:30:36 GMT

I hope the soldier doesn't have financial problems later in life. Did he take cash value or payments

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MIlottoplayer — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:10:18 GMT

Now that's a good 4th of July story.

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KyMystikal — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:04:23 GMT

Congrads. This kind of reminds me of a few years back a soldier was stationed in Korea and came back here to the states on leave, bought a lottery ticket, and won the jackpot. It was the Mega Millions and the ticket was sold in GA. Here's the story....

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104 article=17253 archive=true

After serving in the Army it's good to see stories like this.

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justxploring — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:43:00 GMT

Enjoy your money in peace, Master Sergeant Griffin. God Bless our Troops. I home they all come home soon.

Iraq soldier wins part of $12 million Lotto jackpot

Lottery Post — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:15:01 GMT

It's been a lucky few weeks for a Texas soldier serving in Iraq.

He won part of a $12 million dollar Lotto Texas jackpot, and now he's home.

Lottery officials say the big winner in the May 23rd drawing was the Las Colinas Lottery Group.

More than two dozen people pooled their money, at 20 bucks a month, to play.

Among them was Master Sergeant Bethurel Griffin of Arlington. He deployed to Iraq in June of 2006, but Griffin had paid in advance to stay in the lotto pool.

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