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...easy for people to judge these soldiers, but I thank them for the job they are doing. They are dealing with fighters who kill Americans without thought or concern. The critics should shut up, unless they are willing to put their lives on the line. Chase Hoozer Houston...
...fighting a war with us?a religious war. The pictures of prisoner abuse were not meant for public distribution, unlike the videos of the beheadings of noncombatants taped by Islamic murderers. The mullahs must show that this barbaric behavior is not tolerated?or admit to being accomplices. Mark Price Houston...
Bush is rushing madly into his 80th birthday June 12, when there will be a Houston celebration ("41@80") involving thousands--including a certain U.S. President and a couple dozen sports, TV and movie stars blowing candles and kisses. The next day: Bush's fourth parachute jump (counting his WW II bailout), at Texas A&M in College Station...
...Other historical figures play bit parts in Li's Zelig-like life story. In 1981, Li was permitted to study for a year overseas at the Houston Ballet Academy-he defected, only to be captured by Chinese diplomats who locked him in the consulate building in Houston until his release was secured by then U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush. Li remained in the West and went on to become a principal performer for the Houston Ballet and then the Australian Ballet...
...responsible for all this is free-lance documentarian Don North. He was in Iraq helping rebuild its TV service when he heard of the men and says he used $100,000 of his son's college funds to find and film them. North, with help from a newsman in Houston, recruited Dr. Joe Agris, a plastic surgeon at Houston's Methodist Hospital, to operate on the men free of charge. The Department of Homeland Security waived visa requirements, and Continental Airlines agreed to fly them to Houston. The U.S. branch of the German prosthetics firm Otto Bock HealthCare donated seven...