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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: People from Rapid City, South Dakota, Lawrence Lessig, Jeremy Hinzman, Adam Vinatieri, Debbie Stafford, David Dyson, Thomas Patten Stafford, Charles J. Chaput, Flip Saunders, Becky Hammon, Jason Stverak, Eric Piatkowski, James Abourezk, Ella Cara Deloria, Catherine Bach, Shane Van Boening, Stewart Shining, Paul Crouch, Jr., Paul Goble, Richard E. Ellsworth, Boyd Raeburn, Carroll Hardy, Mark Ellis, Francis H. Case, John Dutton, Bart Davis, List of people from Rapid City, South Dakota, Karen Thurman, William Tibertus McCarty, Wil Collins, Sean Doolittle, Kerry Ligtenberg, Carole Hillard, Moses Brings Plenty, Jim Shaw, Eugene E. Covert, Walter Dale Miller, Valentine McGillycuddy, Joseph H. Bottum, Harry Gandy, Jonathan Adelstein, Layne Flack, Brandon Claussen, Ellis Yarnal Berry, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Megan Mahoney, Shane Drury, Benjamin Munson, John K. Konenkamp, Kelvin Torve, Ryan Bolton, George Disch, Dave Lewis, Alice McCoy, Jim Sykes. Excerpt: Jeremy Dean Hinzman (born in 1979 in Rapid City, South Dakota) is the first American Iraq war resister/deserter to seek refugee status in Canada. He enlisted in the U.S. army as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division and deserted in 2004 to avoid participating in the Iraq War. "He fled to Canada with his wife and preschool-age son. Now living in Toronto and working as a bike courier, Hinzman faces a court martial and a possible five-year prison sentence if he returns to the U.S....Hinzman said he sought refugee status because he opposed the war in Iraq on moral grounds and thought the U.S. invasion violated international human rights standards." He "was one of the first to have his application rejected - a decision he unsuccessfully appealed to the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal. His request to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court was rejected...Nove...
