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To: Drew68
The Express-Times, which published this story, is my local paper. I do not agree with them for putting this child's picture on the front page.

BTW, people were outraged with the Express for endorsing Obama.

93 posted on 12/15/2008 7:37:38 PM PST by Dr. Scarpetta (!)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Mom and dad can take their chances but I would have left the child’s picture out too. Children can be cruel and the little guy could easily be victimized if some older kid recognizes him.

Attacks on children for their parents’ actions are not limited to children, sad to say. My late father-in-law was an Air Force officer and was stationed at NORAD at the time of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. During that time, a peace activist neighbor, a grown man, confronted my future brother-in-law behind their house and started screaming at him, “I don’t want telling my kids about this g**d*mned atomc bomb your father loves so much. We don’t want that s**t in my house and f**k your old man if he don’t like it.” My future brother-in-law was all of 8 years old when this happened. As a general officer, his father was in the public eye and could do no more than complain to the police. An unknown group of off-duty soldiers did beat the peacenik to a bloody pulp a few days later, however.


99 posted on 12/15/2008 7:50:53 PM PST by atomic conspiracy (Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
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