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Perhaps the young man has now learned that there are consequences for his actions even if they seem miniscule at the time.

As for NPR, leave it to them to run anything and everything negative about the military serving in Iraq. I learned many years ago to take NPR with a grain of salt quickly followed by 2 APC's and a large swallow of Pepto.

I find it interesting that anyone would go to these lengths to join the military to go fight in this war....

To Mr. Produce: I don't think the NPR piece was meant to be negative; it was simply a feature story on how some soldiers were spending their free time.

I cited it only to note how popular tattoos are with the troops who already are in Iraq. I thought it was ironic, given the military clampdown on body art.

To govwriter: I sense this is something John really wants to do with his life. He will contact me when boot camp is over.

Mr. Johnson, the NPR lean a bit too far to the left for me to take anything they say about the military and it's connected arms or intel with anything other than what I described above, starting with a grain of salt. After spending half my life in service of my country and over the years seeing the barnyard bovine excrement that the NPR has put out about us would leave me to have serious doubts about their objectivity.

I'm glad we have young men and women who are willing, even eager, to serve our country in a time of war. It's what makes us strong.

Mr. Produce, what does left-leaning have to do with reporting on the activities of U.S. soldiers? I am left-leaning, I totally support our troops in Iraq who are doing their best under very trying circumstances, I appreciate their service and sacrifice, I can't stand our President and administration, I am very disappointed about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, and I want out troops home ASAP. I have never been in the military, but I feel 100% justified in desiring reporting from all parts of the political spectrum, even critical reporting, of our servicemen, as I am a tax payer who financially supports their employment. Also, it isn't helpful to us who haven't been in the service for you to broadly label NPR's reporting as excrement, without citing any examples. You may have good reason to make your comments, but facts would be helpful.

Mr. Produce: My family has served in the military and fought in the Revolutionary and Civil wars, WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam. In retrospect I would hope that we could agree that the cause was not just in the Civil War, however, family letters and word of mouth indicate that we did support our soldiers. One can support the military without supporting the cause. In the case of Iraq I don't believe the cause was just and I don't believe our President was truthful with us. I think that's important. As to NPR, I find them to be balanced and fair (as opposed to Fox which lists to the right), which might the problem here. Perhaps you don't want to hear anything that might shake your opinion. Sometimes we need to be shaken a bit. It's kind of like rebooting your computer....it cleans out the garbage.
E. Edmonds

For what it's worth, I personally find NPR to be the most substantive, day-to-day broadcast journalism on the air today.
It can be a little esoteric at times, but it is thoughtful, complete and not beholden to the Daily Feeding Frenzies of the networks (to wit, all Michael Jackson, Scott Peterson, Robert Blake or [fill in the blank] all the time).
Yes, NPR screws up at times, but it has had some of the most touching,three-dimensional stories on soldiers and war that I've heard anywhere.

I just happen to be very slightly right of center in some cases and center most of the time if that makes a differene. I frankly don't give a rats where you stand Sam. NPR is filled with barnyard bovine excrement when it comes to the military (and you can go back and read back isssues dating all the way to yesteryear) All the NPR usually gives the military is negative press, you will seldom hear the good things we do or did.

I don't agree with everything any administration has done, this one included, but I understand when an election is over , done and there's nothing that can be done about it until next election. I have found over many years that whining , crying, bitchin and moaning never accomplishes anything. I learned to keep keep my helmet on tight, chin up , and my boots laced tight and keep moving until I got to a better position.

I don't care if you like this administration or not,doesn't make a rats butt to me one way or the other. I fought, bleed and damned near died to give you that right to feel however you want and I dang sure can express what ever opinion I want Sam, I earned it, you didn't you just inherited it by the grace of God to have been born in this country and by blood of those before me and those to come who have stood in the gap to insure that right.

I didn't like when they captured female American soldiers, raped them and who knows what else and all you heard was critisim because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I didn't like it when they hanged civilian transporters on a bridge for all to see. Where were you Sam and all the rest of you who don't like anything about this war, when this happened. Where was the outcry in the media?
I didn't like it when they cut off another Americans head and a Brits. Where was the outcry. I haven't heard the ACLU calling for an investigation into that. Didn't that violate an American Citizens rights? NPR sure didn't call for an investigation into it.

I don't think putting panties over a terriorist head when they cut off heads deserves as much news as it got.I don't think banging ammunition cans on bars amounts to a hill of beans neither does playing loud music. But then no one complained when our POW's were beaten, starved, sleep deprived etc etc .

Sure some folks have overstepped the bounds in interrogation, has happened in every war Sam, but in this one it gets blown out of sight by every media in the book. The military has always taken care of folks like this with out the dang help of the ACLU or some foreign court demanding it. I don't like the fact that a terriorist prisioner reached out and grabbed my best friends son last week and tried to choke him and the troop couldn't do a dang thing about it with fear that some whacko would accuse him of abuse. He had to wait until the other guard ran down from the other end of the corridor to help release the hold . In the mean time he suffered injuries to his throat and face.

You want the troops home ASAP well good for you.
I would like them home also. So would a lot of wives, children, moms, dads and grandparents, but they are there they have a job to do and it's best to let the military decide when they can call the job complete, not the President, not the Congress and surely not civilians on the street holding up signs and marching in circles and a negative media showing only the worst side of this war. We already had one war like that and look what happened in that one. You probably don't know anything about that except what you read in the NY Times or got from NPR and they dang sure didn't tell the story straight then and they aren't telling it straight today.

Do they ever tell you of all the rebuilding and medical treatment being done in Iraq?

They forgot to tell how we went into the villages and gave shots, did dental treatment, treated the folks who the NVA or the VC had tortured because they thought they might have helped us. Oh then they forgot to tell you that because these folks did accept our medical treatment that they were often tortured, raped, killed etc.

The troops are doing the same in Iraq now, you don't read it or hear about it today either.

YOU go look up the stories, I am not going to spoon feed you.

So you are a taxpayer, congratulations,so am I and so are millions of more folks, so that makes you what. I gave half my life so you could be a taxpayer to help pay my pitiful dang salary and the ones today which barely keeps most military folks above poverty level today so you can work, pay the salary and then decide that they don't know how to run their business. So there you go Sam ,you want some more facts , go look them up. My disability retirement doesn't pay me enough to do your leg work for you.

I can speak of what I know because I know of what I speak.How about you Sam?

Was I a bit sharp with Sam? Yea, perhaps I was. Sam just happened to hit me at the wrong time with his bit on he leaned to the left ,and his so what deal.
I get so dang tired of people on the left and the right getting so offended because someone mentions left or right. Personally I don't like the far left or the far right.

As far as I am concerned that 20% could just sit down, shut up and let the other 80% of us find some decent candidates , get them to discuss the REAL issues, make some REAL statements about what they want to do and not the normal barnyard bovine excerment that we have to hear every election.
Don't make a bunch of fluff promises that they have no intention of keeping after they are elected and don't make any that they know they don't have a snowballs chance in hades in keeping. Same goes with that bunch in Congress. Yea ,there are a few who do the job but for the most part it's play the blame game and grandstanding.I leave the rest of that opinion for another day and another post.

When we can come up with some people like John Kennedy, Harry Truman, and Ronnie, we don't stand a chance on seeing this country back where it belongs, and thats on top.

Don't be too offended. I am just giving you my views of the world according to an old trooper.

I don't like NPR, don't like the fact that my tax money goes to support something that could and should be supported by private funds. Allan said they report some good news and stories about Iraq etc. Maybe so but they must be few and far between.

Now for the lady and her ignorant attack and her deciding that I listening only to Fox news (and I am going to be nice about that) "Perhaps you don't want to hear anything that might shake your opinion. Sometimes we need to be shaken a bit. It's kind of like rebooting your computer....it cleans out the garbage."
. I happen to watch a wide variety of news outlets and read more than 2 dozen newspaper from around the world and the country so I feel my knowledge is well rounded. Perhaps you need to listen to less of the news outlets and read a heck of a lot more. It's like rebooting a computer, it might clean out some of the gargage

Most network news radio and TV could be put in a sack , shook up and poured out and you couldn't tell one from the other. I find I receive a much more "balanced" news from the papers I read. At least I can read them, digest them and decide which is more realistic.IE, I can make a truely informed decision.

I agree Allen that one does not have to listen to the ongoing saga of all the soroid messes going on that evidently the public is so braindead that they accept it like sharks in a feeding frenzy.

Now if anyone is offended so be it.

The bottom line, for me, is that John Oliver is training to be a soldier at Fort Benning as I type.
Incidentally, he just turned 22 last week. I wish him the very best.

Absolutely. Now that we can agree on.

I am glad that the Army choose not to use his tatto's against him.

In my first post on this subject I stated that: Perhaps the young man has now learned that there are consequences for his actions even if they seem miniscule at the time.

Consequences being he did not get his first choice(Marines) but I am sure that he will find the Army as rewarding or even more rewarding especially the in field he is shooting for. It's a tough row to hoe to make a Ranger but with the determination he has shown just to get into the military, I have no doubt. I would have been proud to have had him in any outfit I served with.

DETERMINATION: an attribute many lack.

I know what Mr. Produce is talking about when he complains about the quality of military reporting. I just tend to avoid anything they produce on the subject.

It seems as "emotional" and "sensational" as the newspapers. They focus a lot on the grief/loniliness of military families--as though that should dissuade us from fighting in Iraq. It doesn't matter if you support this administrations war or not, your husband or wife is away a long time of course you miss them! If your spouse or child dies overseas, YOU GRIEVE.

I was ashamed of Abu Gharib, but quite frankly this sort of thing happens in war. At Abu Gharib prisoners got humiliated. And the perps were punished. Could have been a lot worst. The "Greatest Generation" went out and killed German women and children indiscriminately after discovering the concentration camps (as I understand it they wiped out whole villages). They were simply so disgusted and distressed by what they saw in the camps they went mad. I don't know if they were punished. I don't know that they should have been. What would you have done if you'd seen those camps? Would you have held on to your sanity?

Oh yeah, Mr. Produce, thanks for protecting my country.

I still tend to find their coverage more balanced and insightful ... and more consistent than other major broadcast outlets, which tend to have forgotten that we're still over there.
For goodness sakes, NBC's "Today Show" is doing features on sharks at the beach again.

Well Allan, at least the Today show is not featuring the Shiavo or Jacko fiasco bring ground up and tossed in our laps daily.

Proud to have served Blueberry.

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