Letter to The Editor

I just mailed this letter to the Editor of my local newspaper.

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I must say I am ashamed to admit that I subscribe to your publication. I hardly even dare to call it a newspaper for it does not report on the news it is primarily a conduit for the so called Main Stream Media and their anti-American employees to send out press releases. Especially disingenuous is your October 26, 2005 article about the 2000th soldier to die in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Amazingly, your editors appeared to be attempting to make a statement that they agree with the negative slant of the article by placing the continuation on the same pages as the local obituaries, and burying, no pun intended, the most important statement in the article, the statement made by LTC. Steve Boylan, "The 2,000 service members killed in Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom is not a milestone. It is an artificial mark on the wall set by individuals or groups with specific agendas and ulterior motives."

Are we to believe that you do not support the war in Iraq, when you simply run the dispatches sent out by reporters that hide in the International Zone? Are we to believe that you feel that 2000 deaths is too high a price to pay for freedom and democracy? If so what would you have to say about the 2000 soldiers and sailors that died on a single day in WWII, D-Day? Or the roughly 116,000 soldiers and sailors that died in Europe throughout WWII. Is their loss too high a price for freedom? What would you say about the 115,000 that died in France during WWI?

I admit, war is a terrible thing but to actively or even passively take part in the politicization of the loss of our heroic service members is to dishonor them and the Country that they proudly serve. Why can you not; "Celebrate the daily milestones, the accomplishments they have secured and look to the future of a free and democratic Iraq and to the day that all of our troops return home to the heroes welcome they deserve.."

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UPDATE: 1649 hours
I'm going to have to trim my 345 word letter to 300 words for them to print it. Thankfully the editor of the Editorial page finds nothing wrong with the content of my letter. Well that's good to know, since it is my opinion.

UPDATE: 1656 hours
Trimming completed and sent again...I'll keep everyone posted.

David