Troop-support Videos Pulled Over Taste

Support the troops with something like this? A matter of taste? Give me a break. I bet many people find these videos very funny. That's fine. It seems that supporting the troops requires actually doing it instead of just entertaining them. How about actually putting out videos about readjustment? Maybe some one PTSD and what they go through? How about what it's like for the families when they come home wounded and then have to face life altered by it along with months or years of having to fight to have a VA claim approved? How about actually doing something to support the troops instead of putting out videos about this kind of sensationalism? Taste is always debatable but it's a waste of time when what they need has been unattainable.

Troop-support Videos Pulled Over Taste
July 14, 2009
Fayetteville Observer

The promotional videos were meant to show that Fayetteville goes out of its way to support the thousands of Soldiers who call the city home.

But the videos were quickly pulled from YouTube and other Web sites Monday after their tastefulness was questioned.

One video shows a Soldier leaping on the back of an old woman using a walker to cross a street. Late Monday, the video was back on YouTube.

Another has a Soldier kissing a blonde while a man dressed in women's clothes sits nearby and fumes because he's ready to go.

Later, the man in drag is approached by a swarm of prospective suitors. The Soldier turns to the camera, gives a thumbs-up sign and says, "Thanks, Fayetteville."

"Now that's what I call supporting the troops," adds an actor playing a town official in the videos. "Then again, that's what you'd expect from America's first sanctuary community for Soldiers."

The videos are a product of the city's advertising campaign "Fayetteville N.C., the World's First Sanctuary for Soldiers." They were spearheaded by the Fayetteville Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.

One includes a flatulence sound. Another seems to imply masturbation on the part of the "official town official" before the camera sweeps down to show that he's rubbing a Soldier's feet.

"Shhh. He's sleeping," the actor says.
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Troop-support Videos Pulled Over Taste

Man arrested in death Spc. Megan L. Touma

Man arrested in death of pregnant soldier

The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Jul 29, 2008 21:48:35 EDT

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Police in North Carolina say they’ve arrested a suspect in the death of a pregnant soldier whose body was found in a motel bathtub.

Fayetteville police said Tuesday that 27-year-old Edgar Patino has been charged with first degree murder in the death of Army Spc. Megan L. Touma.
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