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Mail Call: Soldiers Write Home.(Letter to the editor)

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Our April 2 issue on America's war dead moved readers. "The soldiers' words made me emotional," wrote one. Another said, "The voices of the fallen made for sad reading." A third advised, "Quit Iraq."

Voices of America's Fallen Thank you for summarizing the history of the Iraq War from the first-hand perspectives of U.S. soldiers ("The Iraq War in the Words of America's Dead," April 2). But, with the bombardment by the mass media of the news from Iraq in the past four years, has the world not seen or known enough about what has been happening in that pathetic country devastated by this insane war? The crucial task now is for Americans to muster sufficient force ...

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