Command Sgt. Maj. John Sparks, delivers copies of Stars and Stripes to U.S. Marines from 2nd Platoon, 3-2 India Company. The Marines are part of Task Force Tarawa, deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraqi's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein Iraq. U.S. Marine Corps photo by 1st Sgt. David K. Dismukes. Wikipedia
Stars And Stripes Forever? Pentagon May Fold Historic Newspaper -- FOX News
Stars and Stripes — the venerable military publication that has chronicled the heroism of America's fighting men and women since the Civil War — could be on the budget-strapped Pentagon's chopping block.
The Department of Defense, which subsidizes the newspaper to the tune of $7.4 million per year, is considering a range of spending cuts that could also affect the Pentagon Channel and some programming at the American Forces Network. But word that it could shutter a proud paper read by generations of soldiers left at least one former military man disappointed.
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Update: Cuts to AFN, closing Stars and Stripes on Pentagon budget table -- Stars and Stripes
My Comment: I read the Stars and Stripes (online version) everyday. It first started during the American Civil War .... it's closure will certainly be a loss.
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