Message from National Guardsman chronicles U.S. accomplishments in rebuilding Iraq.
Like last year's much-circulated Combat's End piece, this message attempts to highlight what has been characterized as 'the buildings that aren't burning' - the positive elements of U.S. military efforts in Iraq that are supposedly overlooked or ignored by a news media more interested in catching their audiences' attention by reporting the negative.These types of items are generally impossible to categorize with a single truth value because they typically contain a mixture of fact, opinion, subjective statements, inaccuracies, and literally true but often misleading claims. In regards to the question of authorship, it is true that SFC Ray Reynolds, a firefighter in civilian life, is a National Guardsman whose 234th Signal Battalion unit was called up to active duty, and that he wrote this piece. As Sgt. Reynolds responded to inquiries about his message:I did write it and I am in Kuwait now on my way home. I wrote it while at home because I felt that too many people were exploiting the violence in Iraq to sell papers and gain votes. Sometimes the silent majority need to be awakened to respond to the bad things in our world. I am passionate about our President's decision and support this rebuilding whole heartedly... Yes legit.. I am a fire fighter in Denison, Iowa and to verify, call Mike McKinnon of the Denison Iowa fire department.As for the rest of the piece, OrwellianTimes.Com presents another point of view regarding its factual content.
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