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Monday, 18 December 2006

Help Ensure that U.S. Troops at Guantanamo Receive
More Christmas Cards than the Terrorists They're Guarding
Bruce Kesler (H/T: Michelle)

Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu, U.S. Army (Ret.), is a sometime blogger here at Democracy Project and a personal friend. Gordon writes frequently and passionately about American forces serving around the world, and the email below, sent from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, tells of a neglected band of brothers who receive fewer Christmas cards from the American people than those stationed at other locales: the guards at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Worse, they receive more abuse from the press, in spite of the documented fact that they are subject to constant abuse from the terrorists they guard.

As if that isn't enough, last Christmas the terrorists held there received no fewer than 14,000 pieces of mail at Christmas, and they're expected to receive 16,000 this year. All while our troops there are, for the most part, overlooked even by those of us here at home who support their mission.

Gordon gives the address to which you may send cards at the end of his essay, but here it is again:

"Any Trooper, JTF GTMO, APO AE 09360"

Here's Gordon's email: ...

Posted by Bill Faith on December 18, 2006 at 11:54 AM in Islamism Delenda Est, The American Warrior, US Air Force, US Army, US Coast Guard, US Marine Corps, US Navy | Permalink

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