It's hard to believe the media's reaction to the idea of US propaganda during wartime. How on earth could Operation: BODYGUARD have succeeded if the press in 1944 acted as they do today? Someone in Washington should grab a couple of dozen journalists and ship them off to the Army War College for two week course in the history of the media's willing role in military Information Operations. Perhaps when those journalists see how their predecessors acted -- faking wedding announcements of non-existant soldiers; printing phony letters to the editor complaining of rowdy service members who didn't exist; even broadcasting secret messages to the French Resistance, signaling to them to begin their acts of sabotage on the eve of the D-day invasion -- perhaps it would be a wake up call.