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  • PRIORITIZING

    Wow! What a great story ("Scorpion Queen," January/February 2010 issue, page 8). I knew I had a 101 activities to do, but I couldn't start them until I finished that article. Great job to the author and editor.

  • HAND TRANSPLANT GIVES HOPE

    I was thrilled to read your update on retired Master Sgt. Janet McWilliams ("Package Bomb Victim Gets Hand Transplant," March/April 2010 issue, page 4). I remember following her story in the news and also read the in-depth feature you ran in Torch some years back ("Mail from Hell," September/October

  • THE BIG THREE

    I have been thumbing through your March/April 2010 edition of Torch. I enjoyed the cover story ("Lightning in a Bottle," page 8) and liked how you also packaged the story of the Airmen struck in Florida with it ("Bolt from Above," page 12). How interesting that you have two sets of lightning-strike

  • LIGHTNING NOT FRIGHTENING

    I enjoyed your lightning strike stories in the March/April 2010 issue of Torch ("Lightning in a Bottle," page 8 and "Bolt from Above," page 12); they were very entertaining. But what was your safety message? That lightning strikes aren't that serious? One might come to that conclusion as all five

  • CALENDAR KUDOS

    I picked up the Torch calendar at the Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, commissary and have been receiving positive feedback on the pictures ever since. They are outstanding.Elena EsparzaVia e-mail_____________________________________________________You guys do a great job putting the calendar

  • A 'GREAT REALITY CHECK'

    I'm a contractor with the board support officer records at the Air Force Personnel Center. Thank you for such a great reality check magazine.Audrey WhitfieldRandolph Air force Base Texas______________________________________________________We (Georgia Civil Air Patrol Squadron 152) are all excited

  • A GRAND INTRODUCTION

    My husband and I were introduced to Torch magazine yesterday when the parents of Jackson Rogers came to my husband's family practice clinic and showed him the cover story featuring their son ("They Man an Anywhere Ambulance," November/December 2008 issue). My husband, Retired Navy Cmdr. David L.

  • FEELING THE PAIN

    I read "Roundball Ruckus" (January/February 2010 Torch, Page 6) with interest. While I never swallowed any busted teeth, I lost three front teeth to an elbow while playing basketball, so I feel Matthew Stokes' pain. Unfortunately, just like Mr. Stokes, that's what it took for me to finally start

  • RAVE FOR THE 'CAVE'

    I wanted you to know how much I enjoyed Col. John Blumentritt's historical reference to education in the "From the Director" editorial ("Out of the Cave," January/February 2010 issue). What a great analogy. It is very tiring to hear, "We gotta be safe -- 'cause." Putting it in a perspective that we

  • 'ENOUGH ALREADY'

    Enough already with the motorcycle stories ("Queasy Rider," January/February 2010 issue, page 5). We get it: Motorcycles are dangerous. If people choose to ride them anyway, then that's their decision, and they have to live -- or die -- with the consequences. It seems the military doesn't want