<BIG>To the Editor:</BIG>
<BIG>I am an infantry Marine with 12 years of service, and I am presently stationed in Falluja, Iraq. I am also a New Orleans native and my parents live in Mandeville, which is on the North Shore of Lake Ponchartrain. They have lost everything.</BIG>
<BIG>I take issue with "Falluja Floods the Superdome," by Frank Rich. Falluja is doing quite well. I know because my Marines are out on the streets every day. We've been here for almost seven months, and the difference is night and day since we got here.</BIG> <BIG>Secondly, I have 20 other Marines in my battalion who are from Louisiana, and not one of us considers himself a "have-not." In fact every Marine in this battalion is proud of what we have accomplished, and we are proud to be Marines. Military service was a choice, not a last resort for us.</BIG>
<BIG>I am an infantry Marine with 12 years of service, and I am presently stationed in Falluja, Iraq. I am also a New Orleans native and my parents live in Mandeville, which is on the North Shore of Lake Ponchartrain. They have lost everything.</BIG>
<BIG>I take issue with "Falluja Floods the Superdome," by Frank Rich. Falluja is doing quite well. I know because my Marines are out on the streets every day. We've been here for almost seven months, and the difference is night and day since we got here.</BIG> <BIG>Secondly, I have 20 other Marines in my battalion who are from Louisiana, and not one of us considers himself a "have-not." In fact every Marine in this battalion is proud of what we have accomplished, and we are proud to be Marines. Military service was a choice, not a last resort for us.</BIG>
