Transcript: Profile: Controversy over military form letters with soldiers' names attached being sent to newspapers nationwide

MICHELE NORRIS
All Things Considered (NPR)
10-14-2003
Profile: Controversy over military form letters with soldiers' names attached being sent to newspapers nationwide

Host: MICHELE NORRIS
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

MICHELE NORRIS, host:

Over the past several weeks, newspapers around the country have received hundreds of identical letters from troops serving in Iraq. The letters are part of what the Army calls a spontaneous grassroots effort to spread good news about the military's effort to rebuild Iraq. But some soldiers whose names were attached to the letters say they had no part in writing them. NPR's Adam Hochberg reports.

ADAM HOCHBERG reporting:

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