FEATURE LETTER THIS WEEK....
THE HOME FRONT
What do you think of when you see a soldier? For many of us, the image of GI Joe (or Jane) is one- or two-dimensional at best. We see the uniform, the snappy salute, the pride; we see the sense of duty and honor that soldiers wear like just another ribbon on their chests. All of it fits them like a glove. It's one of the big reasons why young men and women go into the service in the first place.
But as with any two-dimensional image, it isn't complete. Our soldiers are ordinary folks, with ordinary lives. They have families to support, mortgages or rent to pay, cars and homes that need fuel or repairs or insurance. They have kids who need to be gotten off to school in the morning and helped with homework at night. They all have the same mundane cares and concerns as the rest of us do. Soldiers aren't Superman or Captain America; they aren't even Arnold Schwarzenegger or Jean-Claude Van Damme. They're us, plain and simple.
Read the rest here and check out "the good guys", a fairly comprehensive list of American Companies that go above and beyond in support of Americas armed forces.
http://www.coldfury.com/HF/index.html#anchor

Sincerely,
Gary Jackson
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Up Against Fanaticism
By Phil Lucas, Executive Editor, Panama City New Herald
If straight talk of savagery offends you, if you believe in ethnic and gender diversity but not diversity of thought, or if you think there is an acceptable gray area between good and evil, then turn to the funny pages, and take the children, too. This piece is not for you.
We published pictures Thursday of burnt American corpses hanging from an Iraqi bridge behind a mob of grinning Muslims. Some readers didn't like it.
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2004/articles/0510fanatism.html

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Into the hinterland with the Special Forces
KANDAY, AFGHANISTAN--The elders arrive at the shura shortly after 9 a.m., from villages that don't appear on any military map. Taking seats on the wool carpet, they sip tea, stroke their beards, and work prayer beads through scarred fingers. They have come to see the two men in pakul hats sitting cross-legged at the end of the mud-brick room, their M-4 rifles leaned against the crumbling windowsill.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/040510/usnews/10kanday.htm

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It's the content of the documents that counts.
Leaking is a way of life in Washington. It could perhaps be said that leaking is the fuel that keeps the city running. Everyone in public life, myself included, has been embarrassed by leaks put out by people who disagree with policy or who otherwise want to blow a whistle. Leaks are rarely investigated, because if they were the activities of both the government and the Washington Post - provided Republicans are embarrassed - would grind to a halt. And because few leaks are actually prohibited by law.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/miranda200405031316.asp

When a Young Person Commits a Crime A look at what happens in juvenile court.
"Juvenile justice" is an umbrella term for the special procedures set up by every state to deal with young people whose cases belong in juvenile court. Juvenile courts handle most ofthe cases in which young people (usually called "juveniles" or "minors") are accused of committing crimes. Of course, the treatment of juveniles differs from state to state, judge to judge, cop to cop. And if differences of opinion generally exist about "getting tough on crime," the conflicting opinions on how to deal with minors accused of crimes are greaterstill. Not every young person who commits an offense ends up in juvenile court. A police officer who suspects that a minor has committed a crime may:
http://criminal.findlaw.com/articles/1386.html

New York Suitcases Spur Terror 'Dry Run' Fears
Police fear five empty suitcases left at Penn Station, New York FBI headquarters and other security hot spots in early April were a test by terrorists bent on a Madrid-type attack on commuter rails, The Post has learned.
A confidential Metropolitan Transit Authority police bulletin, titled "Possible Surveillance Testing Tactics," reveals K-9 cops are on edge over a "suspicious packages pattern" they encountered between the last week of March and the first week of April.
http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?id=12363§ionId=8

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