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[RawAlex]

Peaches, from that exact website:

Contrary to the information in the email I received, Sgt. Reynolds is not a medic. He does communications work. In fact, the 234th Signal Battalion's "mission is to provide wide area communications support in a theater of operations."[*] Sgt. Reynolds' civilian job is as a police officer.

Basically, the signature as provided on the letter is BS. Everything else after that is pretty darn suspect, if you ask me.

Dan: Posting something like you did isn't going to help the situation at all. You know in your heart of hearts that the information in that letter is probably not the soldier's own words, and contains many bits of information taken out of context or without proper comparision. It's level of distribution (the bubba to bubba email network, I guess!) indicates to me a plan (by someone) to use it's content as promotional propaganda.

The Iraq (it's not a) war started with controlled, captive "embedded" journalists, and has moved along with most of the information coming from the military only. However, nothing they say can cover up the deaths of hundreds of soldiers in Iraq, even after the fighting is over.

It's a sad situation all around. I feel sorry for the troops put in harms way well beyond what anyone expected to see.

Alex