Critics cry foul after non-profit group sends racy calendars to troops...

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Mike Aldrich wanted to do something in tribute -- anything -- when he heard last year that 21-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Randy Newman has been killed in Iraq.

But Aldrich's method of honoring the fallen soldier has raised a few eyebrows. He wanted to make a calendar, he said, something the troops overseas could keep, something Newman would have liked.

So he called Newman's parents, and asked "what their son would like to see in a calendar," Aldrich remembers. "They said pretty women and big cars." This week, Aldrich -- a concrete contractor in Bend -- and his non-profit group Military Troops Calendar will send 10,000 calendars to troops READ MORE >>>

Listen to an interview with Mike Aldrich and Robert Berman about this years 2008 Military Troops Calendar and how and why they are involved with this project.

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