The reason people are criticizing this article is because it is a typical example of the biased stuff that comes out of the media:
Example:
"Before long, he began working in a body shop, where the owner told him the most extraordinary thing: Miller could get his auto body repair certification for free -- just by joining the military. A Marine recruiter offered more: insurance, housing, college money."
That excerpt- "the most extraordinary thing"- just drips of condescension. According to the author, this young man joined the military because he was an illiterate redneck looking to get an auto body repair certificate. The second part of that excerpt- about the Marine recruiter- implies that the Marines recruit by bribing and tricking innocent (illiterate, redneck) youths into joining up.
That's why people are so up-in-arms about the liberal media. They don't often show their bias outright, preferring to make subtle hints and vague remarks intended to undermine politicians and institutions they don't agree with.
That's a good point. The media and many dems just come right out and say that people who join the military are at best naive, and unworldly...at worst they are poor minorities with no chance of ever succeeding, except for the military. We know, of course, that no one would ever join for any reason other than a payday.../
The media willing pushes aside hundreds of soldiers who come through combat just fine in order to get to a soldier who casts some doubts about war....then manipulates it as an bias hit piece against the war in general.
Just another case of the media being the media.
btw I have a friend who went through ptds after THREE tours in Vietnam and sounded like Miller but is a proud supporter of the military in Iraqi.
Only difference he didn't have a reporter twist his feelings into an anti war rant.