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4.13.06 @ 12:01AM

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Hello Ben Stein ... someone sent me your editorial (ref below) you apparently wrote. Thank you for the message to our troops, telling them they are important to this nation. I strongly believe the same and will share your editorial with all the troops I write to. They need to hear that message over and over.

I do want to disagree with one reference -- Oprah. You do not know her if you feel that to her dieting and money equates to meaning. She helps a lot of people realize the path of destruction they might be on (drugs, abuse, etc), she helps the effort in Katrina and brings public attention to it, she gives many the opportunity to improve themselves -- this helps our society. She also takes it a step further and helps around the world (Africa -- building an educational center for women). I don't claim to know all that she does and I don't watch her every afternoon but she does contribute to our society.

I just felt it was unfair for you to paint her as another talk show gimmick.

I do what I can to support our troops and I end up spending nearly one-third of my day, every day, doing so. It's my small contribution to the effort.
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AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS. You have the ability to reach many people and our troops need more support than they are receiving. God Bless them. Thank you.
-- Name Withheld

WAGES OF SIN
Re: Ralph R. Reiland's Political Halos:

It's a sad day when I have to rely on Hilary Rodham Clinton Rodham, etc., for scriptural exegesis.
-- Daniel A. Moroco Jr., Colonel, USMCR (Ret.)
Fredericksburg, Virginia

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