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Originally posted by Conclamo Ludus
Actually if you guys bothered to read the letter you'll notice it is a completely different letter, every word of it actually. And its been verified at least by snopes.com as being a real letter. Unfortunately the group letters about Iraq that have been sent out will now destroy any credibility a soldier's letter might carry. This is of course to many people's enjoyment unfortunately. Some people love to be vindicated by bad news. The letter we were argueing about earlier has not yet been identified under anybody else's name. Read them both. They are quite different.
Snopes.com letter link
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From the link:
"This item is "true" in the sense that Eric Rydbom is indeed an engineer stationed in Iraq with the Army's 4th Infantry Division, and he sends monthly e-mail dispatches such as the one quoted above to fellow members of his congregation at the First Lutheran Church of Richmond Beach in Shorline, Washington. This piece was one of those messages, forwarded to the church's prayer chain and thence to the larger world via the Internet."
That doesn't seem like the most enthusiastic verification.