The End
August 10th, 2007 by Jaclyn Sharratt
It is over. For the past 20 months I did not think I would ever be able to say those words. Yesterday, on August 9th, Justin had a 7:00 a.m. meeting with General Mattis, where he was handed the documents to sign that officially exonerated him. In a matter of ten minutes our lives changed, but this time for the better.
Throughout this series of unfortunate events, my family has seen prayers answered, and even some miracles. Ranging from a close friend contacting me in May 2006, after the inaccurate Time magazine article, and offering to send out an email to his firm in Chicago which, in turn, led our family to obtaining the strongest legal defense team; NewsMax collecting donations to help the Haditha Marine families with legal fees; emails sent from Marines, family, friends; the kindness of absolute strangers, who wrote daily blogs, made videos, posted stories, sent emails, and shared words of kindness and support. Without these people in our lives, a majority of them we have never met, but they knew my brother was innocent. They believed. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for everything.