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...Bravo to Dr. Ho and all the researchers, patients and families doing battle with this horrible disease. Never could there have been a better choice for Man of the Year. The selection shows you don't have to be in American politics to receive this honor. MARTY SCOTT Rimbey, Alberta...
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There were also hints of trouble at Aberdeen long before Simpson was locked up. Lieut. Colonel Martin Utzig, commander of the 143rd, formally scolded him in January for jabbing a female recruit (superiors are not allowed to touch subordinates in training) and transferred him from Bravo to Alpha Company. And another drill sergeant with the 143rd was booted from the service earlier in Utzig's tenure for inappropriately touching a female student. This may have led Utzig and others to believe the problems were being properly handled, but it could also have masked a more serious breakdown in the chain...
That may be so, but many soldiers at Aberdeen expressed profound shame at the scandal swirling around them. Phillip Cook, 31, a drill sergeant with the 143rd's Bravo Company, says he saw fear in the eyes of his newest class of trainees, who arrived at Aberdeen on Nov. 9, just after the allegations made headlines around the country. "It took a lot of the power base away from my hat," he says, referring to the distinctive Smokey the Bear hat worn by training sergeants. "It used to be when they saw this hat, they knew that...
...Bravo to Joshua Kaufman for his courageous column ("Naming Names: Peninsula's Fascists," Opinion, Oct. 15,1996). As a longtime Peninsula reader, I am not particularly surprised by the juvenile, casual brutality evinced by the editors of that publication...