Letter Of The Day

In a Jan. 7 letter, David C. Hammel declares that the combat-vest recall was insignificant. He asks us to believe there have "been no failures in the field" and that the issue is not a safety matter but merely a public relations one.

How ironic that the same morning Hammel's letter appeared, the Department of Defense released a previously secret study stating that 80 percent of the American troops who died of upper body wounds in Iraq would have survived if adequate body armor had been available.

-John C. Howes, DeWitt.

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