Way back on February 9th of this year, I wrote the following letter to the editor of the New York Times:

In the article, “Army Effort to Enlist Hispanics Draws Recruits and Criticism” (Feb. 9), Lizette Alvarez writes “Critics also say that Latinos often wind up as cannon fodder on the casualty-prone front lines. African-Americans saw the same thing happen during the 1970’s and 1980’s, an accusation that still reverberates. Hispanics make up only 4.7 percent of the military’s officer corps.” This clever bit of wording is misleading