>>>>The idea that Obama or any politician would visit a warzone and then risk "blowing off" military personnel, in election year, is like saying that a politician would refuse to take the baby and smile for the camera. I don't know why an officer apparently sent his family such a sensational message signed with his full rank and unit...
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>>>You have been in a situation, I'm sure, where you wrote home. You know that the most important information they want from you is your full name and rank within the organization, which they otherwise wouldn't know unless you repeat that in every message.
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>>What is it with you? Always pointing out the obvious! Haven't you noticed no one likes that around here? :o) ROFL... :o) I know that I always included all of that when I wrote home (ha ha ha! NOT!)
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>Kind of like on soap operas when somebody walks into the room and a character says, "Why it's Jessica, the evil twin of my ex wife who was kidnapped by terrorists in Parador and has been in a coma for two years and doesn't know her mother is carrying the love-child of the Senator who is secretly and agent of a government who ... " <g>

Actually, the character of whom this reminded me was Dragiša Binić, a healthy country boy (i.e. a complete redneck the Serbian way) turned top rank, 1st team Red Star Belgrade soccer player. Rich, illiterate, but willing to learn. The jokes about him doing crossword were famous (evening suit: brown; doesn't consume food of animal origin: meatlesslunch; see picture: sawit), but the one of him calling his mom on the phone is a stuff of a legend: "mom, this is your son, Dragiša Binić".