A Place to Talk About War

I would like to hear from soldiers who have been in combat situations, from their families, or from others interested in this conversation. I am a graduate student interested in war rhetoric. I have no preset agenda: I simply want to listen, to learn, and to be supportive.

Name:
Location: Texas, United States

Married, two kids. Worked in the defense industry for 20 years before taking a different path. I'll be starting my dissertation on the rhetoric of war in a few months. This semester I am teaching Freshman Composition. I DON'T CARE ABOUT BLOGGERS' SPELLING, PUNCTUATION, OR ANY OTHER GRAMMAR MATTERS--I JUST WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU.

Monday, February 21, 2005

"Supportive Letters" to Soldiers Actually Accuse

I just became aware of this through PalmTree Pundit. It seems that a social studies assignment in a Brooklyn school went terribly awry when a soldier received a packet of letters, some of which were encouraging and others in which students "pointed out" how many civilians were being killed, that mosques that were being destroyed, etc. by the U.S. That's just what every soldier in a war zone needs--to have a stateside child point out to him what is going on in the war.

Wouldn't a little common sense tell the teacher that actually reading the letters before shipping them off to a soldier overseas might be a good idea?

Update: I went back and read the article more closely. The soldier who received the letters is a 20-year old stationed at Camp Casey, "10 miles from the North Korean border." He's not even in Iraq! You can click on this link to read it yourself.