Richard O'Meara

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Richard O'Meara is a retired Brigadier General in the United States Army. ^[1]

O'Meara is a combat veteran of the War in Vietnam. Following his Vietnam service he earned a law degree and joined the Judge Advocate Corp. He retired from the United States Army Reserves in 2002, after 36 years of service. Following his retirement he took up teaching posts at Kean University and Monmouth University, where he taught courses in Human Rights and History. In July 2006, General O'Meara spoke about genocide and torture at the New Jersey Governor's School of Public Issues and the Future of New Jersey.

[edit] Open letter to President Bush of September 7, 2004

On September 7, 2004 O'Meara and seven other retired officers wrote an open letter to President Bush expressing their concern over the number of allegations of abuse of prisoners in U.S. military custody.^[1] In it they wrote:

"We urge you to commit – immediately and publicly – to support the creation of a comprehensive, independent commission to investigate and report on the truth about all of these allegations, and to chart a course for how practices that violate the law should be addressed."