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From Afghanistan: Quatto Zone notes a headline rewrite...
Oops. But the Telegraph corrected itself, so no harm, no foul, right? No. A Google search showed that thousands of media outlets ran with the characterization in the original headline, including the BBC, the Los Angeles Times, and FOX as well as Top 100 blog sites like the Huffington Post, Crooks and Liars, HotAir and Democratic Underground. Millions misinformed. Damage done.
Given the source those last four words should sting.
Many more words at the link.
On the homefront you wait. And sometimes big stories with mass casualties make the news, and the waiting gets worse. And you know that even if your loved one is okay they can't contact you because communication will be blacked out until the families of the fallen have been notified. So you wait, and start to think if anything bad had happened to your soldier you would have known by now.
Right?
And maybe you hear about someone else who got the word, or maybe not.
And you wait and wait and wait and then you get the call - the one where you hear their voice on the other end - and then maybe you hear a little bit about what went on...
AllAmericanDirect.com announces the final re-launch of 'Laptops for Flat Tops' contest for military families.
INDIANAPOLIS - (October 5, 2009) - AllAmericanDirect.com, a leading e-commerce provider of consumer goods and services, today announces the company's fourth and final Laptops for Flat Tops contest, which will award one laptop with an embedded Webcam (for the family) and an additional Webcam (for the soldier) to two families who have an immediate family member serving in any branch of the U.S. military overseas.
This contest arrives on the heels of three successful Laptops for Flattops contests, which provided multiple military families the opportunity to more intimately connect with their loved ones. The popular contest re-launches on Monday, October 5 to provide a final opportunity for two more deserving military families.
Learn how to to enter contest below the fold.
I feel my days are numbered so I want to say all this while I still can. I pray to god no-one will ever have to read this but as death is all around me if it falls upon me you will understand my recent feelings on this madness we call life.My views and outlook on life seems to be drastically changing recently. As many of you saw before I left when I quit drinking, I was just starting to live my life. Never have I felt as strong as I do about what I am doing here in Afghanistan is the right thing to be doing and is understood and accepted by god. As a result of that death is easier to accept.
Coming back over here again seemed more appealing than being in America surrounded by Americans that are more concerned about there next new car, new house, celebrity, ect. Than the threat to the way of life of the west that is so prevalent in the places I've grown to accept as daily life. I hope one day there will be more Americans knowledgeable on the situation with terrorism in Afghanistan and how important it is that it's destroyed.
Being back here in Afghanistan is exactly were I was supposed to be and where I wanted to be. I feel I'm doing more good over here than I was as an electrician. I knew exactly what I was doing when I re-enlisted Infantry I'm just sorry that you all have to suffer for it now.
For me to prepare myself to take life without hesitation has been a very difficult thing to do. To take away another woman's son, husband, mans son, brother has always bothered me but through my eyes is understood by my god and I am forgiven. For the man that took my life more than likely for all he has known his whole life he feels the exact same way I do when he killed me. That is what scares me and I don't think is understood by disappointingly a huge percentage of Americans.
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