Reply #19: I just replied to you above

[eileen_d]

See post #18. It doesn't matter if the soldiers are in the 503 and in Iraq. It's a bad PR stunt.

Sgt. Todd Oliver, a spokesman for the 173rd Airborne Brigade, which counts the 503rd as one of its units, said he was told a soldier wrote the letter, but he didn't know who. He said the brigade's public affairs unit was not involved.

"When he asked other soldiers in his unit to sign it, they did," Oliver explained in an e-mail response to a GNS inquiry. "Someone, somewhere along the way, took it upon themselves to mail it to the various editors of newspapers across the country."

http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20031011/frontpage/121390.shtml