Winfield resident and mother of Johnny Micheal Spann, Gail Spann (front right), speaks on the floor of the Alabama House of Representatives in Montgomery on Thursday, March 21. District 17 Rep. Tracy Estes (left) sponsored a resolution condemning the early release of John Walker Lindh and honoring Johnny Micheal Spann.
MONTGOMERY - Winfield resident Gail Spann, the mother of Johnny Micheal “Mike” Spann, appeared on the floor of the Alabama State House on Thursday, March 21, to express her opposition to the early release of Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh.
Lindh was a prisoner at the Qali-I-Jangi fortress where Micheal Spann was killed on Nov. 21, 2001, after a prison uprising.
Spann was the first American killed in combat after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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