The American Spectator

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p>Today's soldiers, sailors, Marines and airman who are fighting for us now are the inheritors of the legacy of people like Colonel Dale Denman and Ensign Herb Stein (and his father before him during the Philippine insurrection) and millions of others like them. But it was a different time then, sir. The country pulled together and was mostly unified. Crackpots like Sens. Durbin and Kennedy and the America-haters who today disparage our soldiers would have been silent, or if they did spout their hateful rhetoric would have be shunned by society. Sadly, now we tolerate such buffoons, even celebrate them. Yes, it was a very different time, so different that even the horrors of September 11, 2001 could not bring us back to that time. And as a nation I fear we can't ever go back. br> -- Paul M. DeSisto , Lt Col, USAF (Ret) br> Cedar Grove, New Jersey /p> p> Ben Stein is a hunk and his son will come back to him with apologies like my daughter did, and she said worse. Enjoy Malibu, you lucky man. But the attack on Iraq was wrong, cowardly, criminal, and accompanied by a Goebbelian campaign that still goes on. br> -- Dr. Maria Eugenia Mayer br> Alhambra, California /p> p> Tommy's behavior is normal; it's how teenagers prepare to leave the nest. Someone explained it to me that teenagers find it almost impossible to leave a comfortable home, so they stir things up. br> -- Kitty Myers br> Painted Post, New York

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