I'm getting tired of your sanctimonious, holier-than-thou attitude. I happen to have a little experience here on Free Republic, and these threads DID NOT go overboard on this issue. If they had, I would have stepped in myself to stop it.
As a country, we allowed the media and the Left (but I repeat myself) to spit on our military once before. They're starting up again, and they need to be brushed back off the plate with a little chin music. This snot-nosed little AP "reporter" needs to learn some respect for our military institutions, and to be taught that his "jernalism" professors and peers have the wrong tone when it comes to the military.
Allowing a source to steal the name of "SEAL veteran" is spittle, and that's all it is, especially when the SEALs have gone to the trouble of dealing with transgressions such as these in a public manner with their Net site.
Now, I think Majied's cup may be almost full at this little soiree, but "reporter" Minor needs to drink deeply from the flagon of repentance, starting with a public retraction.
If he refuses, perhaps HE needs to go up on The Wall - but that's for the SEALs to determine.
You are right post-message-469.
You are wrong pre-message-469.
And LeanWrite handled it just right.
Amen.