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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

You've pegged it..... only now there is no outrage from anywhere of consequence. They control the press...or enough of it to counter any they don't.

If middle class kids were being drafted for the shit you'd have outrage.

BINGHAMTON -- When Lester Goodwin of Binghamton spotted his daughter Carmen Renee Goodwin at Hancock International Airport in Syracuse on Wednesday afternoon, he hid behind the crowd, then grasped her in a surprise hug.

His "baby" was finally home after a tour of duty with the U.S. Air Force in Iraq.

"It was the happiest moment of my life," the 52-year-old father said Thursday.

And it was only the beginning of many happy moments for the 26-year-old Goodwin. After five months in Iraq, the Binghamton native could finally hold her son -- a smiling 2-year-old named Tygi.

Her time at an air base in Tallil was the longest time she had ever been away from her son.

"Being separated from him for months and months at a time was torture," she said