I'll Be Home for Christmas (if only in my dreams)

Today there is a virtual Christmas party for the troops in the military recruiting videogame America's Army. This holiday season, of course, many real-life soldiers stationed in Iraq will be at Internet cafes looking at photos, video, and e-mail from loved ones. In fact, it was precisely this kind of communication via computer with the folks back home that exposed the Abu Ghraib scandal when Joe Darby asked a fellow soldier for digital images to send back to the states.