US Army Asks The Injured and Dead to Help Out in Iraq
How rude! If I were the families of the dead soldiers receiving these letters I’d be really upset! Reminds me a bit of the of people rising from the dead to vote for George Bush in the 2001 Presidential Election. Maybe the US government has different standards for who’s allowed to vote and serve?
The US Army is to apologise to the families of officers killed or wounded in action who were sent letters urging them to return to active duty.
The letters were sent to more than 5,100 Army officers listed as recently having left the military.
But this figure included about 75 officers killed in action and about 200 wounded in action.
More than 3,000 members of the US military have died in Iraq since the war began.
Casualties have also been suffered in Afghanistan since the US invasion.
"Army personnel officials are contacting those officers’ families now to personally apologise for erroneously sending the letters," the army said in a statement.
It said the database normally used for such correspondence with former officers had been "thoroughly reviewed" to remove the names of dead and wounded soldiers.
"But an earlier list was used inadvertently for the December mailings," it added.
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