Socialist Resistance

An archive of socialistresistance.org, 2002–2022

Brigade, 3rd Infantry division

Socialist Resistance no9  |  page 6

This is scanned newsprint, not web text. The original PDFs carried no text layer at all, so every word here was read off the page by OCR. Expect dropped opening letters, run-together words and wrong characters. There was no contents page to cut the paper up by, so the articles were found from the size of their headlines: a headline may carry its kicker, and where an article ran beside a boxed panel a few lines of the neighbour can appear. The scanned issue is the authority; this text is here so the words can be found at all.

To Whom It May Concern: asked to be called heroes, or anything else. For the past 9 months we have lived a hard lite....

Our men and wornen have completed every mission we have been given, even when that mission kept us from coming home on time, We have received the occa. ing home; even as we are getting orders for our next mission. paper, Each time we read his words our desperation grows deeper, because we know that most of our countrymen are hearing his lies about our situation here twice that we were going home, and twice we have received a stop moverent to stay in Iraq. .... The 3rd Infantry Division soldiers feel betrayed, and forgotten.... Childre been told by mental health professionals that they need to get out of this environ ment..

Please send this letter on to your representatives in congress and to your local media, and ask them to get the 2nd Engade, 3rd Infantry Division homne...

Sincerely, When you hear about heroes, you think of people whom you would envy. None of us sional newspaper, each one showing us that the rest of the armed forces are returnWe also read the letters that our Commanding General... wittes in our local news.

Our morale is not high or even low. Our morale is non-existent. We have been told Every one of us has made sacrifices, and what is our reward? Being treated like farm Many of our troops have been through some truly terrible experiences... They have

The Soldiers of 2nd Brigade, Srd ID.