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Sunday, February 27, 2005

Letters to the Editor

Sojo Mail posts letters in response to the recent article linked* to a few days ago: Murder mystery in Iraq by David Batstone, Sojourner, February 17, 2005.

Boomerang
Sojo Mail
February 24, 2005

Letter 1
Your warm remembrance [of Kirk von Ackermann] reinforces what I experience every day when I read the obituaries in the paper or hear of death in the news - TV or otherwise. That is to say that even though I may not have a personal link with the deceased, someone did and does still, for which empathy is required of me, not just passing sympathy.

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Arden C. Hander, Flourtown, Pennsylvania
Letter 2
With Michael Moore-ish manipulative flair, Batstone paints von Ackermann as a blue-blooded soccer dad who equally loves foreign children and hates American oppression of them. I do not repudiate Ackermann's virtue but Batstone's implication that powerful Americans hate and kill such saints and all they stand for.

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Jacob Anderson, Baytown, Texas
*See Missing Man post, Sojourner, February 20, 2005.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 4, 2005 at 9:38 AM

    where did you get all this? kirk von ackermann is my father and i really would like to know. i miss him a lot

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  2. Susie DowMay 14, 2005 at 11:30 PM

    All of the articles and information posted here at the Missing Man were found using the search engine, google.com

    I started the blog to help people find information about your father and his colleague, Ryan Manelick.

    There is an Introduction on the home page which explains why.

    From the articles I have read about your father, he's a truly remarkable person.

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  3. Susie DowMay 16, 2005 at 8:03 PM

    I should know better than to generalize...

    Three articles were emailed to me. The Ultra Services website link was originally posted in a comment at my old blog.

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