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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 08:17 PM
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Help - would someone please send this story to Keith Olberman for me.
My Outlook does not work and I want some US MSM to pick up this aspect of the recruitment problems.

US military sees sharp fall in black recruits

Dolly Wilson's father proudly served in the Second World War and her husband in Vietnam. But her children will not join the military if she has any say in it.

"We don't want our kids to go into no war for nothing," said Mrs Wilson, snatching a cigarette with colleagues outside her Washington office.
"Bush has two daughters. Let them go over and fight," she added, to a chorus of "That's not our war" from the others.

(snip)
Mrs Wilson, Mr Golladay and Mrs Allen are not typical of America as a whole. But their views are enough to give the Pentagon cause for alarm. The reason? All three of them are black.

For years, black Americans have formed the backbone of the all-volunteer US army, filling a quarter of its ranks, though blacks account for only 13 per cent of the population. Blacks are more likely to treat the army as a lifelong career; a third of senior sergeants and non-commissioned officers are black. Suddenly, that is changing.

(snip)
"You've got so many homeless people here, they were in the military, half of them. You look at that, people ask, 'Why should I go fight the white man's war when there's nothing for us here?' " she said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/20...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1081830#1082918

BushCo and the Neocons couldn't care less about what 50% of this country thinks but the many predominately Democratic demographics sure as hell don't have to volunteer to become cannon fodder in his "crusades".
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ailsagirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 08:29 PM
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1. done
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 08:34 PM
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2. Thank you. I periodically have to come on DU and beg for someone
to do this kind of thing for me.
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ailsagirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 08:50 PM
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3. Hope you can get it fixed-- must be a bummer not having it work
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idiosyncratic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 09:20 PM
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4. Get an email address at Yahoo! I have three over there.
As well as email addresses from my ISP.
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 09:42 PM
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5. Will that take me through their Outlook instead of the screwed up one on
my computer?

If yes, I'll do that right away.

Thanks.
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DieboldMustDie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 09:56 PM
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6. Web based email like Yahoo uses your web browser...
not an email client like Outlook. You might also want to try Mozilla Thunderbird.
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ornotna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 10:08 PM
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7. You might want to switch from Outlook to Thunderbird
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

Been using it for over a year now and I think it's great.
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idiosyncratic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 10:22 PM
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8. Yahoo is "web based." My email client is Eudora.
They have a free version and I've used it for nine years. Very versatile and it has never failed me.
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 10:32 PM
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9. Thanks. You guys are great!
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