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115 youths in all. All younger than 18.No one demanded that WMDs needed to be found in 1950 Korea, in order to justify freeing South Koreans from potential domination by Kim Jong-Il's father, Kim Il-sung.. Name -- State -- Date of death Donald R Abel -- Pennsylvania   4 Nov 1950 James V Ashbaugh -- Ohio   6 Dec 1950 Donald L Bakie -- Maryland   2 Nov 1950 Ronald R Barker -- Virginia   2 Dec 1950 Robert A Jr Best Jr --Wisconsin   2 Dec 1950 Curtis L Bowman -- Virginia   24 Dec 1950 Donald W Boyd...

As the Battle of the Atlantic heated up, in 1944, Captain Daniel Gallery had a conference aboard the USS Guadalcanal, an escort carrier operating with Task Group 22.3 off the coast of Africa. Certain of his officers and seamen had watched a German submarine take a long time to sink, a month earlier, after they had disabled it. Looking at each other- slow smiles...and a plan... spread out. Aboard the Admiral's carrier a few weeks later, the plan got approved. Training and rehearsals began in earnest. The survivors of the next German submarine to be forced to the surface watched...

In this war freedom should come first not after! In New Hampshire the Motto is Live free or Die! I don't need Bush spying on law abiding americans and taking our freedoms. Anyone who surrenders a square inch of freedom to the government in the name of saftey is a traitor and should be treated like one! Let the Bush Fashists all drop dead! Filthy Commys! LET FREEDOM RING!

(Editor's note: In response to our invitation in Friday's Best of the Web Today, we've thus far received e-mails from 101 readers who identified themselves as members of the U.S. armed forces, service members' relatives, veterans or military trainees. This is a selection of those e-mails. Of those who wrote, three expressed disapproval of President Bush's jokes at last Wednesday's Radio and Television Correspondents dinner; the other 98 approved. We've printed all three of the disapproving letters first so that they don't get lost amid all the others; the approving ones start here. In deference to the tradition that military...