Jeffrey B. Starr
NY Times' Dao Sees Marines Leaving War With Hope, But Edited Out a Mar
March 5th, 2013 7:31 AM
On Sunday, New York Times military affairs reporter James Dao filed from Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan on the Marine Corps leaving the country, "As Marines Exit Afghan Province, a Feeling That a Campaign Was Worth It."
Yet when a Marine wrote a letter, found after his death, that his Iraq service had been worth it, a 2005 story by Dao clipped the letter to instead emphasize the Marine's…