A file image from 1952 shows an American soldier reading the Stars and Stripes newspaper while eating in the field during a lull in the fighting during the Korean War. (Photo by Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of 15 U.S.
senators are calling on the Pentagon to continue funding for the Stars and Stripes publication, an editorially independent military newspaper that began during the Civil War, which may be forced to stop publishing by the end of the month.A letter dated Sept.
2 to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper states that the “historically significant” publication only represents a “tiny fraction” of the department’s annual budget, yet cutting it “would have a significantly negative impact on.