SRS & Brucie, Thanks for the helpful tips. I did the search & it appears that all is true & not a scam. I don't know how you prove the existance of a Lt. Col.The names the search provided could be fake.

I thought of putting some of the claims up here -but some people might use it as a hate platform. There is such ambivalence about this war-I must tell you in all honesty- as I read these claims I was hoping half were Bush lies. When I thought about that-I didn't feel very good about myself. Of course I want the country to be rebuilt & the people to have better lives. But my feelings about G.B. are so strong, it's skewed my thinking.

The thing that really put me over the edge was a remark by this Lt. Col. that all this rebuilding has gone on, with such great success in such a short time. He compared it to the Twin Towers:....

It took the US over four months to clear away the twin tower debris, let alone attempt to build something else in its place.

That son-of a -bitch! The reason it took so long was we cared about every single person, from 70 countrys, we cared to turn over each piece of material looking for body parts. Some people were buried represented by only an arm or a finger. DNA was taken from these body parts for ID purposes. We looked for id's, jewelry, wedding rings, photos, rosary beads. Thousands of tiny items found their way back to kinfolk. That was a slap in te face of every person who worke on that site.

They could have gone in with bulldozers & leveled the place handily. That is if we had no regard for the sanctity of that hallowed ground.

Sorry-but I'm ticked off.