Comments on: Army Apologizes For "John Doe" Letters

Thousands Of Letters Sent To Families Of Fallen Soldiers Addressing Them By Generic Moniker

[mainedoggie]

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mainedoggie Calm down and take your blood pressure meds. Yeah this wasn''''t a good thing but why over react like this. I''''m not saying what they did was ok but it''''s not the end of the world either. And by the way I didn''''t vote for Bush I have more brains than that. I''''m just saying we have bigger things to worry about you know.

Posted by fabrat1
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Yea, you''re right. Let''s not worry about petty stuff like this. After all, who cares, wasn''t my family who got the letter.

Let''s just sweep it under the carpet and forget any of this ever happened.

Now... where did I put my meds...

[caliengineer]

I deployed with an outstanding man and sergeant. His wife was epileptic and began to have serious problems. The army refused to allow him. Yet, we all believed he should have gone.

Later, two men in our unit refused to return from leave. Nothing happened to those men.

Scarier still is the way corporate global machines are moving the world to corporate armies, and nobody seems to be noticing.

[allzwell]

Who was the sub-contractor who printed these? Halliburton?

[brundage3]

AMEN! To the poster who said the army "can''t even get
a programmed letter to the families of deceased correct."

Fir generation after generation the Army has proven it is in the end a non careing bureacracy. Period. As such it proves again it is INCOMPETENT. INCOMPETENT. The U S Army is an evil in our world because no one has the guts to stand up to it. OR they want to use it for evil.

This is only one more element of proof of that. Now and then, a President comes along who wishes to use our armed forces for truly needed purposes only. (As the Army claims it is doing EVERY time it is employed.) Let us hope that the new President does effect change within the armed forces "thinkology."

President Kennedy told a few aids and a Senator or two that he found out in the Bay of Pigs he was right in thinking he could not trust the intelligence/military/industrial complex thinking. When he died he had decided to get out of Vietnam and begin a process of major change in the military
corporate think" functions.

Unfortunately President Johnson was not in the loop on that decision. It was truly top secret because the word could not get out to the intelligence/Army structure.

[sandy19731]

Still better than the first draft:

Dear __________,
Words cannot express my profound sadness to learn that your [son/daughter] was [killed/wounded/missing in action]
Thanks,
George and Laura

[jsd330]

Typical U.S. government contractor. They can make mistakes and waste millions of $, and nothing happens to them. Some poor low level clerk who had nothing to do with it will get fired over it.

[fabrat1]

mainedoggie Calm down and take your blood pressure meds. Yeah this wasn''t a good thing but why over react like this. I''m not saying what they did was ok but it''s not the end of the world either. And by the way I didn''t vote for Bush I have more brains than that. I''m just saying we have bigger things to worry about you know.

[nobdysfool]

The US Government had no regard for these soldiers when they sent them off to fight a war we should''ve never been in to begin with, so why would they have any regard for them after they returned or didn''t return? This letter is very befitting.

[mainedoggie]

"ms1-1-1.... you are really pathetic!! It was a mistake. You act as if they told you that a loved one was dead when in fact they weren''''t. It was a MISTAKE so get over it! There is NO reason to sue anyone have you lost your mind??

Posted by fabrat1 "
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A Mistake? This is a blatant disregard for human life and complete disrespect for those serving our country.

This is hardly a mistake. This is the result of good old 100% pure, lazy, carelessness on the part of the overpaid contractor hired by your dear Bush/Cheney thug ridden, no-bid contract creating administration.

There is NO excuse for this.

[drblizzard]

yea think the IRS could make the same mistake?