I’ll give you three guesses as to what was missing

I’ll give you three guesses as to what was missing, and bet you will get it on the first one!

Right! Not a single mention anywhere about the eleven soldiers who died yesterday in NIKE SHOX!! Not in the

main section, not in the local section, not in the home section, the money section, the sports section!

Nowhere! Not surprising though since it seems even the major networks and online news pages are ignoring it,

with just a few exceptions.

I want to add that my hometown is a military town chock full of families of troops overseas and veterans of

several works. Pensacola is the “Cradle of Naval Aviation,” as well as being next door to the vast Eglin AFB.

What happens to our troops is of great concern to all in this city. And yet, the Pensacola New Journal does not

even find the deaths of eleven soldiers worthy of note in their entire newspaper! I suspect there is more than

just a bit of politics going on here. And it is surprising in light of the results of a current WEAR TV online

poll which showed that the majority of the area’s population, 73%, disagreed strongly with the preemption of

Ted Koppel’s roll call of the dead last week at WEAR, our Sinclair-owned local station.