After reading the article from the USAtoday website, which was cold-heartedly labeled Pentagon to families: Go ahead, laugh, a terrifying fear for the well-being of our country overtook my soul.

January 15th, 2006

After reading the article from the USAtoday website, which was cold-heartedly labeled Pentagon to families: Go ahead, laugh, a terrifying fear for the well-being of our country  overtook my soul.

Our reality, is becoming so lacking of coherence, no dream state or delusion could surpass it in violent derangement.

Shockingly, the Pentagon (the same office that determined 80% of troop deaths in Iraq could have been prevented with proper body armor) is asking families with loved ones fighting wars overseas, to walk like penguins, laugh like lions and blurt "ha, ha, hee, hee and ho, ho to relieve their stress.

Oh cosmic Birther of all radiance and vibration, give us strength!

I feel deep sorrow for military families, caught up in this war and empathize their hell of knowing a “knock on the door” could someday actualize.

To make light of their suffering is infuriating! How dare they tamper with the aguish and anxiety these courageous beings go through, treating them like remote controlled humanoid machines.

I would like to believe the Pentagon is sincere in their efforts to alleviate the pain and desperation of these families but in my heart, I know this isn't so.  To me, it's but another attempt at maneuvering, just more propaganda to sell the masses on WAR. Using Orwellian language and manipulations of presence, to concoct a way for all of us to believe THAT WAR IS GOOD, WAR IS AMUSING.  Well, I am not buying it and neither are the military families.

Carolyn Schreiber

Live Oak, Florida