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posted 07-07-2005 11:57 AM         

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Take a few minutes. Read this. It's worth it.

http://www.wtv-zone.com/Mary/THISWILLMAKEYOUPROUD.HTML

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posted 07-07-2005 01:53 PM         

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Thanks for the Post Buckneckid!

I'll forward it.

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posted 07-09-2005 10:23 AM         

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Thanks Buck------- from a retired Army, Navy vet. 1954 to 1977.

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posted 07-09-2005 05:06 PM         

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Marine Corps 1954-1958
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posted 07-10-2005 09:21 AM         

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Boy ain't that the truth. The media has a definate slant and presenting all the facts is often not as important as creating "entertainment value" or preserving time to sell advertising. I've seen it firsthand.
I earned a BA in Journalism in 1989 but was soured on journalism as a career almost immediatley during my news internships after seeing how facts get discarded and clipped to fit into the News Directors vision of what the daily news product is, and fit into the time or space alloted. I never worked in that industry after college.

Instead I am a proud navy vet (1990-1996) of Operation Desert Shield (Persian Gulf)and Operation Restore Hope (Somalia). My heart goes out to all the Marines, Airmen, Sailors and Soldiers on the ground in the Middle East. These guys do their jobs in some really crappy conditions day in and day out. When my ship arrived in Somalia some of the Marines who had been there for over 180 days got cycled out to our ship for some R&R. I immediatley realized that these guys had been living and fighting in the dirt for half a year, and we showed up in what was essentially an "RV" to them. Trust me life on a navy Missle Cruiser is spartan at best but we brought our own kitchen serving 3 hot meals a day, our own beds, cold air conditioning and we got to take a hot shower every day and put on clean clothes. These guys had almost none of those comforts. You got to give a big Bravo Zulu to the military for what they have to do to get the job done for America.

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