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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 1/24/2006, you wrote:
> I won't dispute your assertion at this time, but I've seen no such stories
> in the media. The one story I did read -- and I'm sorry but I can't remember
> where it was, though it was mainstream -- indicated that many troops had
> armor that they had to leave behind. Since so many of the recruits come from
> rural areas where everyone knows everyone else, not all of the stories
> coming home are cheerful about body armor.

It was in the local paper sometime within the last several weeks.

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