I don't always get to read the comments left on my blog, but I was really especially proud and grateful for  this comment here: 

Cpl Sanchez,
Was forwarded one of your articles on the media in Iraq. It had your e-mail attached. Would have posted this note on your blog, but thanks to the new NMCI BS it's blocked. Am currently stationed in the sandbox myself right now......again. Wanted to let you know that it's nice to see, first, an enlisted individual who is able to articulate what the rest of us are seeing (I'm so sick of reading stuff from Generals who only know what their advisers tell them). Second, it's nice to see it coming out of Columbia University! As a native New Yorker I'm all too familiar with their liberal views and poor treatment of the military. It's very frustrating to see the kind of stuff that I do out here, work with the media, taxi around Generals, etc and to then be asked questions from people back home like "what do you think about what's going on over there?". I find more and more that I'm just too angry to answer intelligently and there is just so much to it all. Particularly when asked about the media or the contractors that are over here ie blackwater. When I was home between my last deployment and this one I found that I couldn't watch the news, couldn't watch the political debates, or many of the political discussion shows that I used to find interesting. The total disconnect between what the media puts out to the American populace there in by shaping the opinion of the populace is infuriating. Seriously I couldn't watch the TV. So I guess what I'm trying to get at in a very round about way is Thank you. Please keep up the good work. Those of us that have become too bitter and angry to find the words need those like you who can to tell the story of what is really going on here to maintain the integrity of our names and the honor of our work. Thank you for holding them accountable.
Semper Fi,
Cpl Condello
USMC

  The article Cpl. Condello responded to was this one here;

Hurricane Point Rides out the Storm

In Ramadi, personality sometimes 'more useful than body armor'

By Matt Sanchez
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

HURRICANE POINT, Ramadi – If you head west from this small forward operating base located on Route Michigan, you'll reach a bridge that crosses a peaceful river. It would be easy to spend an afternoon walking along the riverbank, and many Iraqis do.

3/7 Marines have plenty to smile about, Ramadi is a much safer place.

But the 3rd Battalion 7th Marines out of 29 Palms know complacency kills. In fact, that adage is written on the walls near the exit as a warning to Marines about to go outside the wire and into town.

Speaking to any member of the 3/7 Marines is like talking to a history book. For those who were here last deployment, the chapters on Ramadi are written into their memory. And when asked to recall the last deployment, the Marines of the 3/7 all seem to pause, as if staring at a photo of the past, trying to match up the old image in their minds with the reality right before them. cont...