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Your comments about Garance Francke-Ruta are wildly off the mark. I was an Active Duty 1LT that met her while conducting Relief/Recovery efforts at the World Trade Center in September of 2001. I and many of the military personnel at our triage base (Guard and Active Duty) found her to be intelligent, knowledgable and fair. I had the privilige of escorting Ms. Francke-Ruta in one of our FLAs (ambulances) through lower Manhattan and ran for my life with her and my driver when the NYPD thought that 1 Liberty Plaza would collapse across the street from us.
Her article that later appeared in the Washington City Paper was fair, balanced and gave due credit to the soldiers she spent time with there.
As for your description of "military", that is hard to iron out. Is "BlackFive" in the IRR anymore? If he is, he most certainly is "military" and has the ID card to prove it. I've asked him repeatedly to sign an SF 180 allowing me to request his records but he always declines (too bad he spends so much time criticizing other vets that don't sign them either).
Posted by IRR Soldier at March 10, 2005 10:50 PM
Sorry, Wrong thread....
Posted by IRR Soldier... at March 10, 2005 10:53 PM
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