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I'm TDY again, and I am in my room listening to the State of the Union Address. I just heard that Cindy Sheehan is the invited guest of Lynn Woolsey and has been arrested. My first thought was, "What has that jackass done now?" But, I am going to reserve further comment until I hear the whole story.
Being an Officer...a Black one.....is sometimes hard. [Howard Rollins from "A Soldier's Story"] Sometimes being an Officer is difficult....not because of hard tasks, short timelines, or all of the worries involved in the care of your Soldier's, but the aura of professionalism and objectivity that you must display at all times. There have been many times that I have wanted to make a comment, yell, cuss at someone, or otherwise let my personal feelings be known about a subject, but unfortunately I could not because of my position. Let me tell you about two incidents that bothered me in particular. I was in Dallas Ft. Worth airport waiting to catch a flight on the last leg of my TDY trip to help a returning unit at Ft. Sill. As I went to my gate, I saw 4 Sailors in their black uniforms gathered at the gate...one was large and white, the other three were black. There was very little room, and many of them were standing intermingled with civilian airline passengers
Journalist Abducted... Unfortunately this is not such an unfaniliar and shocking headline. A journalist from the Christian Science Monitor has been abducted in Iraq. I hope she makes it out of there alive.