Ins0mniac
12-10-2003, 11:50 PM
"A Gannett News Service search found identical letters from different soldiers with the 2nd Battalion of the 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, also known as 'The Rock,' in 11 newspapers... The Olympian received two identical letters signed by different hometown soldiers: Spc. Joshua Ackler and Spc. Alex Marois... The five-paragraph letter talks about the soldiers' efforts to re-establish police and fire departments, and build water and sewer plants in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, where the unit is based. 'The quality of life and security for the citizens has been largely restored, and we are a large part of why that has happened,' the letter reads... Six soldiers reached by GNS directly or through their families said they agreed with the letter's thrust. But none of the soldiers said he wrote it, and one said he didn't even sign it... A seventh soldier didn't know about the letter until his father congratulated him for getting it published in the local newspaper in Beckley, W.Va. 'When I told him he wrote such a good letter, he said: "What letter?"' Timothy Deaconson said Friday, recalling the phone conversation he had with his son, Nick. 'This is just not his (writing) style.'"
here (http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20031011/frontpage/121390.shtml)
here (http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20031011/frontpage/121390.shtml)