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Posted By: Myster Backlash Troubles Military Families - 07/08/03 11:29 PM
I read this today and it made me very angry. Everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion. That is their right as an American. A right that our soldiers help protect. But, no matter what their opinion is, they DO NOT have a right to harass our soldiers, their famiy members, or DoD personnel.

Colorado Springs Gazette
July 7, 2003
Backlash Troubles Military Families

"Melody Varner was chatting online with friends and family June 24 to keep her mind off what might be happening to her husband, a Fort Carson soldier, in Iraq.

She couldn’t believe the words that bounced across her computer screen next.

Someone who apparently found Varner through her screen name, "army_wife_1997," fired off an instant message that began: "I hope a [censored] off Iraqi caps his [censored]."..." <img src="/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

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