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I guess Ms. Farsetta has never once stepped foot into any arena as other than an observer - reporter. Including in responding to my comments on this article. I've yet to see my comments or a response to them in reference to this obvious witch-hunt reporting. My intention was to draw your attention to the IG report and it's vague inferences to "appearances" and "favoritism" and other non-specifics. Also, the negative painting of Barber's lawful (and dutiful) questions to the DoD Legal beagles "can we ask for sponsorship" was turned around against her in both the IG report and your article. Further I asked if this report were 18 months in the making near the end of the 7 year program...it's obviously a parting shot at the end of an administration rather than a constructive tool. Someone within the DoD, Stars and Stripes, and possibly a disgruntled ASY member organization had an axe to grind and used the media to do it. I saw no attention drawn by this article to the affects of the program on the troops or their families, or the people who joined the effort to serve a purpose of supporting the vets...I read only an assault on the program and people in it using a vaguely worded IG report and Farsetta's own "tilt." -JF