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January 13th, 2006

Read letters that Military Families Speak Out members wrote to USA Today after they published the article:

Pentagon to families: Go ahead, laugh
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-01-12-pentagon-laughter_x.htm?POE=click-refer

I find this program and the pride with which it is offered an outrageous insult to me and my children, to my husband and to the service he and his fellow military give up to this nation.
January 14th, 2006
Yes, go ahead and laugh as your child, husband or wife go to Iraq to get a leg blown off, or killed, or return with depleted uranium sickness.
Colonel Scott may be doing good work, but you must be aware that your headline and the tone of the article strikes like a punch in the face to people like me
January 17th, 2006
When I first read this I thought it was a joke piece, as I read it again I was sickened to realize it was real.
January 17th, 2006
The stress for military families is very real. It is not a "laughing" matter.
January 16th, 2006
Having buried my husband's Army son, I assure you there is nothing funny about war.
January 16th, 2006
I am a member of MFSO ( military families speak out) And I have to say that this is appalling to me. My only child is on his way right now to Iraq and the Pentagon is telling me to laugh.
January 15th, 2006
After reading the article from the USAtoday website, which was cold-heartedly labeled Pentagon to families: Go ahead, laugh, a terrifying fear for the well-being of our country overtook my soul.
January 15th, 2006
Asking us, the family members, to waddle like a penguin in order to "laugh away our stress", goes beyond insult. It is obscene!
January 15th, 2006
As the mother of a soldier preparing to deploy in the next several weeks, I find this article highlighting the "Cheerman of the Board" quite distasteful. War is no laughing matter.
January 15th, 2006
So the answer to post traumatic stress is to TAKE A WALK!!
January 14th, 2006
My husband died last year, I'm terribly disabled with multiple sclerosis, and have been making arrangements to move near my son's base
January 14th, 2006
The best way to improve the mental health of our soldiers and their families is to bring our troops home now. This would be far more therapeutic than laughing like goofballs.
January 14th, 2006
In response to the 1/13/06 article "Pentagon to families: Go ahead, laugh" I am a wife of a New York Army National Guard soldier, my husband just returned this past fall from a year long tour of duty in Iraq. Though, "laughing" may be considered "support" by those in the Pentagon, let me tell you what we really need, and do not get!
January 14th, 2006
LAUGHTER ! Did we read this correctly ... LAUGHTER ?
January 13th, 2006
I am writing in reply to the January13th article titled "Pentagon to families: Go ahead, laugh. Go ahead and laugh? While our loved ones are in harms way, still without proper armor, proper food, in a war that is an illegal, immoral and unjust? Laugh while our loved ones are dying for nothing?
January 13th, 2006
My list of things morally and ethically offensive about the United States occupation of Iraq now has a new number 1, the very existence of a Pentagon "chief laughter instructor"; and a new number 2, his advice to military families to "walk like a penguin"
January 13th, 2006
The report of the Pentagon’s advice to military families’ (“Pentagon to families: Go ahead, laugh,”) was unfunny and downright insulting.
January 13th, 2006
I am outraged at your article "Pentagon to Families : Go Ahead, Laugh " To keep it short and sweet, my husband is gearing up for his second tour in Iraq...
January 13th, 2006
Laughter is great. As are tears. But there is something seriously disturbing about the artificial inducement of laughter to stick a Band-Aid on the wounds of war.
January 13th, 2006

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