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From the movie "True Stories." Apologies for the forced commercial at the beginning of this YouTube excerpt.

When Kenneth Watson was 16, he thought nothing of the gnat that flew into his eye: "I don't think you can afford to be afraid of bugs in the Bible Belt," he said. But two weeks later when the Hardy, Ark., teen was getting ready for school, he knew something was terribly wrong when he couldn't see. When he told his mother, she thought he was faking. "I had slept late and my mom thought I was skipping school," he said. "Sometimes I would come up with crazy stories, and she told me to get up and get ready." As...

Today there is a burning question regarding the recruitment of vocations to the priesthood. Much has been said, written, and done in this regard, and with it all there has been too little thinking about the role of mothers with whom, next to God, the almost radical solution lies. If God in His omnipotence can make bread from stones, can call His priests from the most troubled circumstances, though this is at any rate the exception, it proves the rule, that the great majority of all priests owe their vocations not to clever recruitment schemes, but to a good mother...

I too, do not know if this is real, although I suspect it is. I can, however assure you that the terminology is exact, and the tactics are accurate. I can also assure you that the attitude is dead-on. Thought you might enjoy this non-press-filtered view. ======================================= I don't know if this is real. Been passed through the Marine POCs. From the information that I have received from up here this seems to be true. ----- Original Message ----- Subject: Fw: Fwd: 2/4 SITREP (Ramadi) No on could ever accuse this PFC of being Politically Correct. John, In view of...

My child is listening to the Bush bashing and swears that HIS contacts with the military say that morale is low, suicides are up, the Iraqi's don't want us there and everything is bad. I have said that I have heard different and he said but they are letters from you don't know who. He is right, but I know that freepers out there DO HAVE FAMILY OVER THERE. You have someone with personal knowledge that you know and trust. Please share with me, personal knowledge over there. The truth, either way. Thanks