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I would love to sit down and have a chat with one of these soldiers. Not to yell at them, you understand, just to ask where they're coming from and tell them what I think about their behavior. Hopefully they would get it, and yeah, I'd want them to cry.
about a year ago, there was this story about a (very attractive by the way) female US soldier in Iraq who took x-rated self-portraits of herself for her husband, but when she emailed them home (for his self-referential pleasure, I assume) they remained somewhere in the public PC so her buddies found them & put them on the Net. pretty graphic stuff. I remember thinking, she's in Iraq and when does she find the time to get a Brazilian wax. I was very impressed by her dedication to grooming.