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soldiers and i found the writers remarks demeaning and a informal poll revealed that about 90 percent of soldiers in our organization have those in most hold a Strong personal symbolism for the individual i have one Tattoo in Honor of my wife of More than 20 one of my soldiers has a Tattoo of a Cross As a Symbol of his Christian one of our soldiers has a Tattoo in remembrance of his countless soldiers and marines in Iraq have had meat tags tattooed on their rib Cage for identification of their should it come to doonesbury explain to me How any of these Are silly or make us look like Poser ath each example above holds a Spe Cial meaning to each of i fail to understand How a persons Tat Toos have any bearing on the Quality of sol Dier he or his performance in a combat insurgents bullets do not Home in on a target based on whether it has a there have been cases of soldiers who have had questionable tattoos but those Are the not the just because the person expressing a particular opinion is a sergeant major does not automatically mean his is the Correct master Timothy Tyren Camp Iraq a disservice to contractors for the writer of motivated by fat pay checks june 15 to say that All contractors Are motivated by fat pay checks and that is recognition enough is a disservice to every one of i am a i served for 15 years i also was a warrant before an injury at fort forced me to leave the and Many contractors like am passionate about my army service and wished to continue the Best Way for me to do that was to become a since i no longer could Soldier to the letter we face the same dangers you we bleed and die just like the soldiers we sacrifice just like every member serving Here for the letter writer to say we Are motivated solely by Money shows his ignorance of what truly drives being that the letter writers opinion is the Only True service is in i guess it would be of with him if the red army and air Force Exchange ser Abr and every other contracting company giving support pulls up stakes and perhaps we should Stop the care air conditioners and refrigerators from being sent to soldiers by organizations Back after these peo ple Are Only utilizing their own time and Money to help All they can there not truly serving Are they Brian k Stephens Camp Iraq by Garry Trudeau the two kept is a just he can a prickly City by Scott Stantis minium of to did to be w1dsjep Ido i