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Get advertisers to sponsor a Servicemen's page. We need to get rid of that ambiguous "support" word and start calling it honoring those who serve. Ask folks to fly the flag again daily -- and not just on special days.

Americans are a complacent bunch. They have always lived in freedom and regard it as their birthright - something that will always be there. We saw Oprah Winfrey following September 11 in her big tearful, huggy, prayer/peace rally with some entertainers who now disavow the Iraq War. Oprah flipped soon enough too. We saw flags on every house and pick-up truck. Then we fell back into our old ways. Interesting that we have FOIA - Freedom of Information law suits for everything but Dick Cheney's pacemaker readings, but the actual carnage following 9/11 has never been aired, for those not too squeamish to view. We briefly see some pretty graphic footage on TV from Iraq but we'd rather keep it under wraps that people actually jumped to their deaths here. It would be a grisly wake-up call for those who now recall it mostly as the day of soot, dust, getting dirty and having their flights cancelled and planes grounded and the subways stopped.

Maybe it is time. Maybe past time.

Were it not for the chaos attendant to the farce, it would be comical to see a "mock" band of terrorists emerge in a crowd at a Stop the War Rally. A little street theater, so to speak. Protesters would be slipping and sliding in their own excrement in their panic to escape (perceived) danger.

p>I look forward to more letters from Beverly Gunn and mothers like her. It would be interesting for TAS Magazine to seek out a few to interview and do an article for your magazine of a cross section of this country. I am a subscriber and I know I would enjoy reading interviews with them. Just go find her! How hard can Quitman TX be to find. Heck, you know where Cindy is. We would enjoy a break from the Russet Potato Nose Queen. Let the Liberal media and Kos and MoveOn know we are here, too. br> -- Diane Smith br> San Francisco, California /p> p> KOFI DROPS br> Re: Jed Babbin's On the Road Again : /p>

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