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I posted Captain Brown Hugh’s message on the comment section of a few military blogs (milblogs) yesterday, trying to solicit some reaction from the sites’ authors or readers on the scam soldier letter. One advised me, "freddy, I got that e mail too. I dismissed it as BS and promptly deleted it."

Okay, sure. I know. It’s BS— a 419 scam from Nigeria, most likely. But can there be no commentary on it beyond that it’s phony? After all it’s a fake soldier letter during wartime, with the simple promise of millions in exchange for attention and correspondence, really. And I can’t help thinking that this letter, as it’s bounced around the web, is getting more public screen time than authentic soldier letters.

"I can tell ya what that Capt. Brown Hugh stuff is…full of s..t" commented another milblog reader. "This is similar to many internet scams going on…too bad it’s so hokey…and plays on military morality! Stinks to high heaven!"

What is a play on military morality? After all, what is military morality, and how does one play on it, besides purporting to be in possession of millions of stashed dollars in Karbala? Marines possibly gunned down two dozen civilians in Haditha in only the most publicized recent report of Iraqi deaths, and Abu Ghraib/Guantanamo images of the American military acting on its unworldly rhetoric have long been embedded in the public view of this war. I hardly think "military morality," then, is so static, let alone certain. Did the commentator mean to suggest that "military morality" is considerate, even smart, like a smart bomb?

Then again, if I’ve taken anything from reading many military blogs recently, it is that they are a residence for the monolithic language of Operation Iraqi Freedom, of freedom and patriotism, and of justified war.

But at least this 419 scam has worked its way into the milblog lexicon. One reader thought a post applauding a recent Ralph Peters’ article in Armed Forces Journal was "good… (too good for [the blog’s author] to get a ‘Brown Hugh-o-gram’)." Apparently posting the phony email as a comment was an insult to this blog post on Peters, a retired army general who writes Op-Ed for the New York Post, and authors books like New Glory: Expanding America’s Global Supremacy.