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and can be contacted by email at of buds , or by phone at european and Pacific stars and stripes 2007 stars and stripes web site letters to the editor say thanks to vets As the nation celebrates its 231st birth we cannot separate the passion for lib erty from the wars that have been fought to achieve and preserve the men and women of the army have been among the first to answer the country Call to service Ever since the army was chartered by the second Continental when the Security of the nation is men and women in the army leaving their their their jobs and their communities to live out their values of selfless integrity and personal the nation has a responsibility to acknowledge their sacrifice and ensure they Are not this Independence if you see a sol i urge you to thank that Soldier for his or her if you know someone who is a of any say thank you for your it May sound but Freedom has never been free a High Price has been paid to secure the idea and the Ideal we know As each citizen has a responsibility to acknowledge the sacrifice we ask of soldiers to ensure our Way of recently i was honoured to be named an ambassador for the army Freedom team Salute this program recognizes All army veterans and provides a army National guard and army Reserve soldiers the Opportunity to Honor their parents and spouses for All the sup port they guard and Reserve sol Diers can Honor their employers As As we look toward november and Veter ans i urge the Public to consider a Day of service make a special Effort to thank veterans you come in Contact they will appreciate i know this to be True because i and always will a Kenneth Schlueter Camp South Korea airman a not a celebrity As i waited with bated breath for news that Paris Hilton had been released from that Dungeon called the los Angeles county i received a sad As Hilton was working on her multimillion Dollar Deal for the account of her time in air Man 1st class Jason a 22yearold air Force was patrolling the roads of Iraq and helping train iraqi police and Mil itary i understand Hilton went to Australia and was paid More than Mil Nathan got a couple Hundred extra dollars for hazardous duty Hilton got a whole wardrobe of Nathan got three sets of desert camouflage Battle uni forms and new Paris does not produce anything other than unlike Elvis Presley or John who recorded songs made movies that can still be seen or heard Paris is Only Good for business As Long As she is there was nothing special about he was a Young Man who joined the air Force to serve his the email i got the Day Hilton was sprung from jail was that Nathan had been killed tall Tii what you think stars and stripes welcomes your comments on editorials and columns that Are published in the and values letters on topics of importance in the lives of our All letters must be and must include the writers address or base and Telephone please limit All letters to 300 we Reserve the right to edit letters for taste and Sand your letters to mail stars and stripes unit 29480 Apoate 09211 International mail stars and stripes Postrach 1330 64345 Griesheim via fax country code 0 Dan 3498395 email letters@8stripes.osd.Mil in he was patrolling when an explosive device went off next to his i never met Nathan i am on Many cur rent and former air Force cops email lists but when i got the email of his death i thought i was going to i am not Happy with the Way my air Force is using air groundsman in this we do not have the combat training to be yet the department of defense uses air men in combat areas they were never in tended to be deployed to Nathans i am so sorry for your he stood up and was counted when his country needed a life needs to count for something other than just being air Force Van Harl retired Altus air Force Why limit military Talent Pool i am a Marine corps first lieutenant who recently separated having fulfilled my i now work to end the Absurdity that is dont dont i receive correspondence from the Marine corps urging me to return to Active i got an email from Marine corps mobilization command that strikes to the very heart of problems created by dont dont the email was a plea from the Marine corps for the need for qualified arabic linguists is an i re member being in Iraq and needing an in in my there were two choices the first one was called the Good inter Preter and the second one was called the bad both were iraqi males being paid huge sums of Money for their the difference Between the Good one and the bad one was simple the bad one was i always got stuck with the bad the email encourages All those with Lan Guage skills to Contact it emphasizes effective june the Maxi mum monthly pay for Active duty service members who Are proficient in another language will be increased from to for National guard and Reserve doonesbury a Peryear Bonus will be obviously the need is the email continues to say the incentive pro Gram will focus More on critical language such As arabic and and bring people into the the Marine corps is projecting a shortfall of but continues to discharge linguists under dont dont kicking qualified people out of the Mili tary is clearly damaging our military and negatively affecting our National Readi in addition to marginalizing the Patri Otic service of the thousands of Gays and lesbians currently dont dont Tell is creating strategic vulnerabilities in our it is time to get rid of this useless Antonio Agnone Washington Are soldiers at greater risk could this happen you be the judge what if Joe anyone just had his Pic Ture taken next to the insurgent he just killed in a firefight what if a reporter took his picture and it appeared in the next Days paper with not Only anyone but his and from where it is deployed what if a bad Guy saw the photo went online and in five minutes had anyone Home where his family just happens to live what if the bad Guy was Able to Contact a Sleeper cell located in the same area As anyone what if this Sleeper cell started to harass or worse anyone family what if anyone got word that his family no longer was Safe what would happen to anyone morale and anyone once they found out their families we rent Safe Why do we allow so much information to be published about our soldiers lets not make it easy for the bad a photo graph but no names or units should be in any caption for whatever Rea could this happen you Tell what if operational Security worked Jeffrey Wernz Camp Kuwait Nimitz was no dropout William Netts june 19 letter requirement disingenuously suggests that Admiral of the Fleet Chester Nimitz was a High school dropout when he entered the not after passing rigid examinations and evaluations to ensure that he had the Poten tial to Complete the demanding Currick Young Nimitz went directly from High school to the naval he was graduated seventh in his As the letter writer Nimitz just did it was not prior experience he had Little that enabled him to achieve such but rather strength of character and intelligence that were enhanced and directed by a solid the letter writers citing of the honorary High school diploma awarded Nimitz at the end of is Active naval service was apparently intended to make a Point by Tell ing Only part of the Clifford Robinson retired Las vegas by Garry Trudeau youroffkz00zya hou55 70 account in not part of the eamv50rauc 06hh a
