Copyright 2011 by John T. Reed
A reader told me my article complaining about the unseemly celebration outside the White House after the bin Laden death was blocked with this message.
Access Denied
The following site has been blocked in accordance with the Joint Ethics Regulation, AR 25-1, and JTF-GNO policy.
AR means Army Regulation. JTF-GNO means Joint Task Force Global Network Operations.
My response is another abbreviation I learned in the Army:
FTA
Since I was a radio officer, I also know it in Morse Code:
dih dih dah dit dah dit dah
The older officers in communications forgot their Mose Code. We young officers who had more recently been through the school still knew it.