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Show 86 publishers said the war effort that sonnel. not paper also helped reinforce doubts about the they felt to be spreading among fellow service per Other soldiers at Fort Carson, the necessarily have to see or read the By its presence, the paper led did publishers said, paper to be affected by it. to discussion by servicemen intrigued by the prospect of other soldiers publicly attacking both the war effort and the not see a copy of other servicemen military hierarchy. Aboveground may or Those personnel have heard it talked about by they may have read about it in stories pub lished in local conventional newspapers such Free Press and the Denver Post. The as the Colorado publishers suggested Fort Carson command's decision to forbid distribution of at the Springs that the Aboveground post may have fostered interest in the newspaper among troops who either resented the distribution ban the paper was or whose curiosity about aroused. At the time of their that who did interviews, Roberts and Stocker indicated Aboveground contributed to what they agreed was a decline in morale and discipline among military personnel at Fort Carson. Abovround was not the most significant factor precipitating this decline, the publishers said, but the paper reinforced and intensi fied dissatisfaction conjectured lower already existing among troops. publishers that the nature of the Vietnam War and the status of ranking personnel within the military hierarchy resulted the decline of morale and and The helped facilitate. discipline which Aboveground encouraged The paper gave voice, they said, to wide spread grievances and complaints existing throughout the ranks suppressed from in publication in official military newspapers. and |
