[litany_of_lies]

Although your friends' experience during the Gulf War is a different problem from the one WABI has exposed (traumatizing now vs. publicizing then), it raises a very big issue in this very different war:

The media should NOT be naming names of soldiers or their hometowns in ANY of their reports (this should have been true during the Gulf War, as you have indicated, but it's even more important now). There are too many Islamic sleepers and "citizen traitors" in this country. Anyone named stands a good chance of having his/her family and/or friends, employer, etc. harassed or worse by the terrorists and "peace activists." This isn't WWII, where there was very little domestic insurrection, or even Vietnam, when the protestors were generally the same age as the combatants, and there was a tiny shred of decency in the antiwar movement (they might spit on soldiers, but they wouldn't take it out on their families, at least not that I'm aware of).

All such decency and civility are gone. PLUS, terrorists and terrorists wannabes will want revenge, and will go after soldiers' families, especially of those who are heroic in the war effort.

[Lauratealeaf]

The media should NOT be naming names of soldiers or their hometowns in ANY of their reports (this should have been true during the Gulf War, as you have indicated, but it's even more important now).

That is a very good point!