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["Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>]

The article below from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by 
tvoivozd AT roanoke.infi.net<mailto:tvoivozd AT roanoke.infi.net>.

Thank you, Tvo, I *love* success stories !

> A Peach . . . No, a Honey of a Farmers&#39; Market
> September 29, 2004 By R. W. APPLE Jr. 
> MADISON, Wis. ON Saturday, Sept. 30, 1972, 11 produce vendors set up shop 
> (snip)
> This year, (snip) more than 20,000 people made their way from stall to 
> colorful stall, (snip)
> This is a farmers' market for farmers, run by the farmers themselves. 
> Everything sold must be grown in Wisconsin, and the sellers must actually 
> have participated in the production of the
goods. 

"of the people, by the people, for the people".

Contented - - - sigh - - - .

Toni
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Mr. Rumsfeld, however, still seems wedded to his vision, as he's granted
permission to only temporarily enlarge the Army by 30,000 troops.

tvoivozhd---THIRTY THOUSAND???---the driveling idiot!---infected by the
Bush Virus--"promise everything but pay for
nothing"---great-great-grandkids in diapers can pay.



    The Christian Science Monitor - csmonitor.com
from the October 01, 2004 edition -
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1001/p08s03-comv.html

When Army Morale Takes a Hit
The demands on America's overstretched armed forces are starting to take
a toll on troop morale. That has consequences beyond soldiers' mental
outlook (which is of itself no minor issue).

Concerned about its ability to retain and recruit soldiers, the Army is
considering reducing its 12-month combat tour in Iraq and Afghanistan to
between six and nine months (the Marine tour is only seven months).

The tour was lengthened last year because the insurgency in Iraq
required maintaining a large military presence there. But feedback from
the front line is that a year is too much of a hardship.

That complaint goes especially for the National Guard's "weekend
soldiers" who never expected to be away from their families and regular
jobs for a year.

Signs of recruitment troubles are beginning to surface in the Guard and
Reserves, the Army's backup. For the first time in 10 years, the
National Guard expects to fall short of its recruitment target - by
about 5,000, or 9 percent. And more than a third of the 1,662 former
soldiers being reactivated from the Individual Ready Reserve had failed
to report for duty in Fort Jackson, S.C., by last week's deadline.

The interplay between morale and recruitment is now hitting home.
Overextending forces threatens morale. Yet morale needs to be improved
in order to maintain and build troop numbers in an all-volunteer military.

And let no doubt linger that the Army needs to increase its size.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's lean-and-mean vision for the
military may have sufficed for attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, but that
hasn't held true for the nation-building missions that came later.

Mr. Rumsfeld, however, still seems wedded to his vision, as he's granted
permission to only temporarily enlarge the Army by 30,000 troops.

A recent report by a Pentagon-appointed panel, the respected Defense
Science Board, says the US military faces several choices: add
"substantial" forces to its numbers of troops, scale back missions, or
depend more on other nations.

Perhaps Rumsfeld is counting on the last two options to support his
temporary fix. Yet the training of Iraqi forces is going slowly, and the
Army plans to maintain current US troop levels in Iraq at least through
2007.

What will motivate recruits and boost morale is confidence that the
Pentagon will increase force numbers and rotation.

Given the troops' outstanding service in what has turned into a
guerrilla war, they deserve it.

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