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To: LindyBill who wrote (86852)	11/18/2004 12:01:13 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793543

Belmont Club - In the Heat of Battle 2 One of the situational dangers of the battlefield was illustrated by the death of a California Marine. The Mercury News reports: mercurynews.com Marine Lance Cpl. Jeramy Ailes, 22, of Gilroy was killed Monday in Al-Fallujah by small arms fire. "They had finished mopping up in Fallujah and they went back to double-check on some insurgents. From what we gathered, somebody playing possum jumped up and shot him,'' said his father, Joel Ailes, who learned of his death Monday evening. "It's extremely hard." ... His first time in Iraq, Jeramy Ailes gave $10 to each child he came across because he knew it would feed their families for 30 days. This time, he asked his family to mail as many soccer balls as they could. His family sent 300 balls, and Jeramy Ailes' platoon handed them out to children. Joel Ailes warmly remembered the last conversation he had with his son last month, in which Jeramy Ailes recounted how he had come across a large man walking with a 12-year-old girl carrying a huge bale of straw on her back. His son, who spoke and read Arabic, exchanged words with the man. And, for the next seven miles, his son carried the girl on his back and the man carried the bales of straw. "That was my son," Joel Ailes said. That was his son.

To: LindyBill who wrote (86852)	11/18/2004 12:21:22 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793543

The notion of a SysAdmin force doesn't seem so crazy after you read something like that, huh? During the Dem presidential primaries, Kucinich talked about something he called the Department of Peace. I have no idea what Kucinich meant by that, but I think it's a cool name, and propose appropriating it for the function that Barnett calls SysAdmin. I concede that it would be rather Orwellian to call a branch of the Department of Defense the Department of Peace, but I still think it's a cool name. The Pax Americana isn't achieved by joining hands and singing kumbaya. It's one of our best exports, and nobody can compete with us in providing it, and we don't need to worry about outsourcing.