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REPRINTS Newspaper Story on Soldier Forced to Pay for Body Armor Sparks Fundraising By E&P Staff Published: February 07, 2006 12:40 PM ET NEW YORK It may have been a case of financial insult added to injury. William "Eddie" Rebrook IV, had recently paid a bill for $700 for lost body armor he used in Iraq -- which was purportedly pulled off his body after he suffered severe wounds in a roadside bombing one year ago. The last time he saw the body armor "he was lying on a stretcher in Iraq, his arm shattered," the article explained. Rebrook, 25, left the Army for good because of his injuries. Apparently there was no record that the body armor had been stripped from him in battle, he said. He "scrounged up the cash from his Army buddies and returned home to Charleston last Friday," the Gazette related. His mother, Beckie Drumheler, "said she was saddened -- and angry -- when she learned that the Army discharged her son with a $700 bill. Soldiers who serve their country, those who put their lives on the line, deserve better, she said. He served six months in Iraq, according to the newspaper. The story, by reporter Eric Eyre, does not include confirmation or comment from the military.
com/ "We liberal folk may disagree with the Bush administration over the reasons for going to war and over how they're fighting this war," he declared, "but one thing you'd expect no disagreement over would be the treatment of our soldiers. They fight for their country and they deserve some respect in return. And that means not charging them for their body armor because someone blew them up on the battlefield." Aravosis later reported receiving $4400 in donations from 187 people in the first two hours.
World of Film Reviews Changed By Internet Once upon a time, you checked your local newspaper's film critic for advice about what to see on any given weekend. Today, more than 90% of the target moviegoer demographic ages 13-34 go online to get their movie information.
Chinese Editor Dies After Cop Beating Up to eight police beat and kicked Wu Xianghu, before hurling him out of his office and bundling him into a police car. A journalist at Taizhou Wanbao, the paper where Wu was deputy editor, said that newspaper staff had been warned against discussing the incident with outsiders.
Alt Weekly Columnist Compares Criagslist to Wal-Mart Tim Redmond of the San Francisco Bay Guardian says about Craigslist founder Craig Newmark: "In many ways, he's like a Wal-Mart -- yeah, landlords get cheaper real estate ads, and consumers find some bargains, but the money all goes out of town. And he puts nothing back into the community: He doesn't, for example, hire reporters or serve as a community watchdog."
Search Engines Challenged On 'Theft' A group of newspaper, magazine and book publishers is accusing Google and other aggregators of online news stories of unfairly exploiting their content.
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