A Veteran's Iraq Message Upsets Army Recruiters

[Ernesto]

DULUTH, Minn., Dec. 21 - As those thinking of becoming soldiers arrive on the slushy doorstep of the Army recruiting station here, they cannot miss the message posted in bold black letters on the storefront right next door.
The two storefronts. Staff Sgt. Gary J. Capan wants the sign removed from the window next door to his Army recruiting office in Duluth, Minn.
"Remember the Fallen Heroes," the sign reads, and then it ticks off numbers - the number of American troops killed in Iraq, the number wounded, the number of days gone by since this war began.

The sign, put up by a former soldier, Scott Cameron, a wounded Vietnam veteran, with his sign noting the numbers of Americans killed or wounded in Iraq. has stirred intense, though always polite, debate in this city along the edge of Lake Superior in northeastern Minnesota.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/27/national/27duluth.html?hp

[Dunvegan]

1. This Soldier is Just Reporting the News...As Protected by Amendment One:

He defended our Constitution, he gets to practice it. End story.

[amitten]

3. You're damned right. If you can't face the number of dead, don't

keep beating your war drums for any more half-assed pointless conflicts.

[amitten]

4. Oh, and in the meantime, feel free to enlist.

:thumbsup:

[msongs]

2. salutes to this guy...hope he stands his ground. Not cut & run hehe nt

[Bushies gotta go]

5. Screw off, recruiters

You don't like it, move.

I hope the Vet holds on. Funny how he was once a hero and now a villain. That should be the message these new sign ups should receive: Join the Army. Get used and then abused.

[The Roux Comes First]

6. Let nothing interfere with our mandatory national campaign

of denial of the effects of war! Holla, holla, holla. Come on, youngsters, sign up here! No patriot would refuse! With us or against us! We have all the answers and we are always right. Or at least unaccountable - care for some koolaid??

[Hissyspit]

7. kick