Forwarded from Steven Harvey

Greetings:

In addition to Richard Harris' link, here's an article from the
Globe & Mail. Nothing particularly revelatory but interesting to find
any hint of this in the mainstream press. Steve Harvey

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030405/UROYYN_4//?query=Jessica+Lynch

Poverty, military service seem to go hand-in-hand

By ROY MacGREGOR
Saturday, April 5, 2003 - Page A1
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>Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 11:25:17 +0100
>From: "Richard Harris" <rhh1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: why working class youths join the army
>
>There is an interesting audio clip related to this at:
>
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/bh/transcript.shtml
>
>link to the programme and slide to 33:20. 'Plankton', oddly, is the opening
>word. The ostensible topic is football hooliganism, but covers joining the
>army etc. In England last week, Turkish fans were attacked by hooligans
>supporting England. Depressingly, English working class youth are out for
>such an event, but an anti-war demo is goung to be students and woolly
>pullovers.
>
>Richard
>Canterbury, Kent.
>
>
>

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