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This kind of thing actually happened during the Gulf War. Some friends of ours, both Mom and Dad deployed. The Mom was a nurse and the Dad was a brigade commander and they arranged for one of the grandmothers to come to stay with their two sons so they could continue to go to the same school.

Time Magazine came along and was allowed by the school to interview and take pictures of the two boys (who were in elementary school) and they put their pictures on the cover of the rag. The parents were horrified when they found out and were very fearful because of the national exposure of their children.

They hadn't given permission for Time Magazine to do such a thing and neither had the grandmother. The school had taken it upon themselves to allow the reporters and photographers to interview and take photos of the boys.

It was very upsetting for the family, the grandmother and the kids. I think when the couple returned from the gulf they took their sons out of the public school and put them in private school.

Hi Lauratealeaf!

Have been mailing to Sen. Warner and Sen. McCain. Have to get some more addys and will continue. Nice part is that with the web, everything gets published. The left cannot keep their nastiness a secret and get by with it.

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.