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S'1’' JJnrtlanb ® h Berber November 2, 2011 Cultural Gap Found in Poll Public has little understanding of military concerns (AP) — One in three U.S. vinced that the American public veterans of the post-9/11 mili has little understanding of the tary believes the wars in Iraq problems that wartime service and Afghanistan were not worth has created for military mem fighting, and a majority think bers and their families. that after 10 years of combat, The Pew Research Center, a America should be focusing less nonpartisan organization that on foreign affairs and more on studies attitudes and trends, its own problems. called the study the first of its The survey also reflected kind. The results were based on what many view as a trouble two surveys conducted between some cultural gap between the late July and mid-September. military and the general public. One polled 1,853 veterans, in Although numerous polls have cluding 712 who had served in shown that Americans hold the the military after 9/11 but are no military in high regard, the re longer on active duty. Of the spondents in the Pew research 712 post-9/11 veterans, 336 acknowledged a lack of under served in Iraq or Afghanistan. standing of what military life The other polled 2,003 adults entails. who had not served in the mili Only 27 percent of adult ci tary. vilians said the public under Nearly half of post-9/11 vet stands the problems facing those erans said deployments strained in uniform, and the share of their relationship with their veterans who said so is even spouses, and a sim ilar share lower — 21 percent reported problems with their The findings highlight a di children. On the other hand, 60 lemma for the Obama adminis percent said they and their fami tration and Congress as they lies benefited financially from stru g g le to sh rin k the having served abroad in a com government's huge budget defi bat zone. Asked for a single cits and reconsider defense pri word to describe their experi orities while trying to keep pub ences, the war veterans offered lic support for remaining in a mixed picture: "rewarding," volved in Iraq and Afghanistan "nightm are," "eye opening," for the longer term. "lousy." N early 4,500 U.S. troops The Pew survey found that have died in Iraq and about veterans are ambivalent about 1,700 in Afghanistan. Combined the net value of the wars, al war costs since the Sept. 11, though they generally were more 2001, terro rist attacks have p o sitive about A fghanistan, topped $1 trillion. which has been a more pro The poll results, presented tracted but less deadly conflict last month by the Pew Research for U.S. forces. One-third of Center, portray post-9/11 vet post-9/11 veterans said neither erans as proud of their work, war was worth the sacrifices; scarred by warfare and con- that was the view of 45 percent in the separate poll of members of the general public. Fifty percent of veterans said A fg h a n ista n w as w orth it, whereas the poll of civilians put it at 41 percent. Among veterans, 44 percent said Iraq was worth it. That compares with 36 percent in the poll of civilians. Of the surveyed former ser vice members who were seri ously wounded or knew some one who was killed or seriously wounded, 48 percent said the war in Iraq was worth fighting, compared with 36 percent of those veterans who had no per sonal exposure to casualties. Exposure to casualties had an even larger impact on attitudes toward the war in Afghanistan. Fifty-five percent of those ex posed to casualties said Afghani stan has been worth the cost to the U.S., whereas 40 percent of those who were not exposed to casualties held that same view. Page} Stay in tune Advertise and subscribe ÎÎ!' ^crtlanh (©bscrucr 4747 NE Marlin Luther King Jr. Blvd Portland, OR 97211 503-288-0033 Benson Grad Joins Army Army Private Santiago D. Bibiano, son of M arina and Santiago Bibiano of north Port land and graduate of Benson High School, has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Sill in Lawton, Okla. During the nine weeks of train ing, Bibiano studied the Army mission and received specialized training. The instruction included drill and ceremonies, Army history, core values and traditions, mili tary courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, rifle marksmanship, weapons use, map reading, land navigation, foot marches, and armed and unarmed combat and field maneuvers. 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