Morale of soldiers in Middle East high

Michael Yon has an excellent post on how the American perception of how the world views us is much different than the reality. And how the morale of soldiers over there is high--much higher than the MSM would have us believe. Yon's just arrived back in Kuwait, so I'm expecting some more great reporting on the war--NOT a bunch of drivel from mainstream journalists who rely on stringers to bring them their news. Here's an excerpt from his post:

This war is strange. I never hear soldiers worried about their own morale sagging. Contrary, the war-fighters here are more concerned to bolster the morale of the people at home. Here in Kuwait, where the dining facilities are bedecked in Christmas decorations, soldiers stream in from Iraq on convoys and stream back north along those bomb-laden roads. The service members here are not all rear-echelon people who never see fighting or blood. Yet their overall morale obviously is high. Few of them know I am a writer, and so they speak freely at the tables around me. In Qatar, from which I’d just departed, I spoke with troops taking 4-day R&R passes, some having just returned from the most dangerous parts of Iraq, and others heading straight back and their overall morale was also very high. The morale at war is higher than I have ever seen it at home; makes me wonder what they know that most Americans seem to be missing.