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A a a a letters requesting information or assistance will be answered in a feature called readers action line which appears on Page 16 every Day except thursday and sunday. Such letters should be addressed to readers action line the stars and stripes Apo 09211-4211. Tuesday March 12, 1991women gis lauded if i Ever had second thoughts of women in the uniformed services a 1 take it All Back. No one could have More respect and admiration for those women in desert storm. It drives me to tears to see them on can wishing for so Little As a Shower arid a decent meal. Believe me ladies when i say 1 Pray for each and every one of you for your Safe return in a not one to Pray often but now i do. All i can do for you All now is connect you to your friends arid family Here in Berlin. I am a military Telephone operator. A a your switchboard in Berlin is always Happy to connect you. Night and Day. We do our Best arid Are always sad when sometimes your number does no to answer. When it is Busy my shift Calls the Bunde Spost to interrupt so we can connect. The ladies from the German Telephone system help us. They deserve credit As Well. A a Sigrid Lee Spriggs v a Berlin a a v a / a a. A no Gulf censorship As a writer with a bachelors degree in journalism and five years of experience in news reporting 1 take great exception to the letter a sgt. Backs censorship of Gulf  / -. A. A a athe argument is old but True the print and broadcast Media can Only report what it is told and allowed to observe. If the of ppm. News is too informative and its plucky reporters too Well informed then the responsibility of curtailing the information Falls to the source. In this Case that is the military. Arguing that the Media should delay the news or self censor reports is like telling a Baker not to sell cookies because they make people fat. Americans want news and the press is simply playing its natural role in meeting the demand. Censorship is not the key. Man Tion the word and you lose the attention of All thinking men and women. Through such Means As censorship Are we saddled with the. Selective scratch and sniff sort of journalism we find in the the stars and stripes. A Eugene m. Downs or. Wii Flecken Germany essential to the War i like everyone est Here Salute those soldiers deployed to desert storm and their families. They Are All doing an excellent Job. However i feel that everyone seems to be so focused on a Over there a that we Are forgetting a very important element of our War against tyranny. Very simply the soldiers at Home and Here in Germany who have not been deployed and their families a whether they Are guarding our caverns keeping the Home fires burning for those units deployed or support for the army of desert storm. 1 know a lot about these men and their families. You see in a one of the a Lucky ones whose husband is still Here. Now done to get me wrong. I am Lucky because he a always Only a phone Call away and he s Here to cuddle at night. But he s still working harder now than he Ever has 13 to 16 hours a Day seven Days a week to support our forces deployed in desert storm. He does no to play with his family a anymore he does no to have time. He comes Home eats goes to sleep and gets up and does it All Over again. We his family done to condemn his Lack of time with us. We understand the need for him to be where he is when he a there and we re proud of the part he and All the other non deployed soldiers Are playing in desert storm. Without them where would our desert storm troops be a wondering who is guarding their families or won Dering where their ordnance will come from a or who is delivering their mail and paying their families but we must remember that those left Here and at Home arc important As Well. A Judith Buskirk Miinster German Cann speak Lor All offering objectivity via divergent opinion within the news Media is the Benchmark of free and enlightened society. This objectivity within your particular medium no matter How irksome for some it May be is the responsibility entrusted in you to provide your readers. However much of the Story you printed about the Vietnam veterans against the War anti imperialist is what is left on the pasture when All the cattle go Home especially when the leadership of this movement claims to speak for a fall  i wish to make but one observation i known person Wise enough worldly enough or sufficiently Clever to speak for a fall  a Harry Calvert a Frankfurt German teamwork is wonderful since the Start of desert shield storm in be seen something wonderful happen. We All had round the clock duties in All sorts of weather All sorts of stress and Little sleep from enlisted to officer but we Hung together and accomplished the Mission. In be seen spouses make goodies for guards and support each other while missing their loved ones the children even help the other children Cope and understand. The families not Only put up with it All but pitch in. What is this wonderful thing 1 Call it teamwork and in a proud to be a part of it. A. A spec. Elaine Frosa. Gripping in Germany a gentle Tate preferred when i read your recent article a casualty notifications my thoughts trailed Back to aug. 5, 1944, a Black Day in my life As a 9-year-old girl in War torn Germany. It was 10 months after my father had been killed in world War ii. My Mother was holding my baby sister born two months after my fathers death. The three of us were in the Only room we had after our House had been bombed. There was a Strong Knock on the door. An officer in uniform pushed open the door saluted and yelled out a i am sorry having to inform you that yesterday your son Wilhelm lost his life while defending his country1�?� he saluted again turned around and was gone. My Mother fainted and the baby fell to the floor. I stooped Down and picked her up covering he letters to the editor face with the tears i was crying for my 19-year-old brother killed in Russia. It took decades for us to recover i am extremely Happy that the . Military forces Are taking care of casualty notifications in the Way your article describes. Sure we can to change the facts. Our soldiers Are dead but we certainly can break the news gently a Wal Cogan Darmstadt German silent herpes of War being deployed is hard on All soldiers and their families left behind in the states. Two Days is a Short time to pack and say goodbyes let alone close an apartment especially a single Soldier like myself. I still have Bills and responsibilities at Home that need attention. Amy dog cat fish and horse Are my children. How do you Tell a dog that you Are being deployed and done to know when you la be Home this is to say a thank you to my parents sister brother in Law and a special Friend. They arc there to make sure the Bills Are paid and the animals Are cared for  Loving a. They have squeezed time into their already Busy Days to take a few worries off my mind so i can do the Best Job that i can her these Are my a silent heroes of this War. Hats off to silent heroes. A Traci Hayes. Heidelberg Germany thank you Lel Tvr i am writing this letter in thanks to the Captain who helped my 3-year-old son and me make it safely Home. We were stranded on the autobahn when our Radiator Hose broke. We tried to get our car fixed with no Luck. This Nice Captain from Maurice Rose Airfield helped us. He came to buy Windshield wiper fluid and by the Grace of god we met. He gave us a ride from the by Gas station in Bonames to his office. There the people of his office gave us a lot of support. My son was very sick that Day. We were on our Way to the Hospital when we broke Down i would like to again thank you even though i can to remember All your names. I know i will never forget your faces the smiles and the comforting words you gave us. My son did make it to the doctor and received the treatment he needed for his  a. A. V a my car was towed safely Back to our Home i wanted you to know we Are of thanks to air for your help. A Lisa and Thomas Pursell Ober Ursel germany1st from fort Riley my fellow soldiers and i Are very upset because a recent Issue stated fort Riley kan., unit. Left . 15, one of the first fort Riley soldiers to depart for saudi  my battalion the 541st Maint in an 800-plus battalion has been deployed since sept. 29, so does no to that make us the first fort Riley soldiers to leave  for Sii udi Arabia not to mention the 593rd trans Dot that deployed in the sometime Frame. Thank you for Clearing up this matter. A spec. Nora Prafke operation desert storm