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Today was the day that the local paper had an article about Joel, the girls, and I in it. I have been told it was a good article, but I guess I have a biased opinion. I read the article and a few things caught my attention right away. The first, being the thing that upsets me the most right now is how the journalist phrased what I said about Joel and being in Audie Murphy's Company. As I read it, it made it sound like Joel knew this was Audie Murphy's Co(which is tru), that Joel knew all there was to know about Audie M.(true again), but then he said, but Joel did not think about that a lot, he was more proud of being a CO and getting his command(this is all from memory so some of the wording is off, I am sure). That is not true, that is not what I said, what I said was Joel was proud to have been able to lead soldiers, as a CO and as a soldier, his primary concern was always his soldiers, he just got to do it as a commander now. I almost felt like the writer made it sound like Joel did not care about anything but getting command. That really upset me, because that is not the case, Joel always held his soldiers first and I know that those who knew Joel and his leadership style know this, but.....I just want him remembered for who he was, who he truly was, not what some reporter wrote in the paper that had some half truth's in it. Maybe I am being ultra sensitive in all of this and it is a good article, I guess I just have a very deep, very strong emotional investment and it gets bruised at times, very easily. I know I am being to sensitive, but he is my husband and I want people to know what he truly stood for and to me some of the article did not portray that in the best manner. There is nothing I can do aout it now, except know that those who knew him know how he was and remember him for who he was and tell that to my girls.