What's amazing is the media tries to portray the letter from the General to 41 as somehow being sinister...
Yet, if the General wrote to 41 to say "Your son is a bad recruit and won't obey my orders"... can you imagine the hysterical reaction?
The bias is incredible.
And sickening.
And regardless of what the letters say, which isn't much, we should hold W. responsible for this ... why, exactly?
I guess my son got special treatment too, since we got a letter from his commanding officer saying what a great job he was doing. They send them to the parents if the soldier is not married, otherwise to the spouse, whenever the soldier is doing a good job.
The press doesn't want to protray these letters as common curtesy when the soldier is doing well. My son was an enlisted man, and in the infantry.