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[somedaybitch]

the press has been making quite a fuss about their being unable to photograph the coffins coming home from Iraq. James Lileks has a reply.

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[cretkid.livejournal.com]

hear hear

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

i lost it completely at Gnat's postscript.

[cretkid.livejournal.com]

yup. my uncle brings back a lot of the letters he receives, both from his own boys (6 and 8 respectively) as well as other kids from the grade school his sons go to. granted, he gets more emails than written letters as he's on a ship most of the time.

and while my uncle can be a total twit at times (took him 12 years AFTER high school to get his act together) he is a great guy and stands up for what he believes. it's very hard to win an argument with my mother, but he 'stood' toe to toe with her last winter when politics and the war came up. it was wonderful to watch (mom's raised my uncle, basically)

it cheeses me when there are complaints about not being able to view the coffins as they return. luckily, my area has news teams (television and newsprint) that have a brain.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

it cheeses me when there are complaints about not being able to view the coffins as they return.

yes. because they don't give a flying fuck that there are bodies of dead Americans in those coffins. they care because showing the coffins makes the President look bad.

luckily, my area has news teams (television and newsprint) that have a brain.

you're a lucky girl. i may have to hate you. pbpbpbpbpb

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

it's a peculiar sense of entitlement that the press uses to decide what they will or won't cover. I can accept that they are not allowed at Dover, because of the risk that they simply want to count a coffin, they don't care about the story inside it... fortunately our locals seem to pay homage to each that is killed from The Fort, indicating who they are and where they are from, and I believe they have covered every funeral of somebody from Colorado, even if there isn't a stupid protest from westborough baptist. [there should be a special hell for that preacher...]

in some ways because there have been fewer lost in these conflicts, I think that Joe-on-the-street is taking it more personally. the numbers are small enough that he can get his brain wrapped around the individual, around those left behind. it's much harder to deal when it's not just some guy who didn't return, but it's a kid from Greeley who was on the wrestling team, and used to help his dad plow. it's a double edged sword that way. each soldier can be laid to rest with the reverence of the whole people he or she protected, but each loss the more difficult because they have a face and not a number.

war is always more expensive than you can imagine, even when it's right.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

even if there isn't a stupid protest from westborough baptist. [there should be a special hell for that preacher...]

yeeeeeesssssssssss.

because of the risk that they simply want to count a coffin, they don't care about the story inside it..


well, and the interesting thing is that if they were, you know, *actually* smart, they'd cover the funerals for more emotional impact and hide it behind so-called altruism. then they'd at least have the appearance of doing their jobs properly.

war is always more expensive than you can imagine, even when it's right.

what continues to stun me is how ANYONE can fail to grasp that. it's not like war is some new modern phenomenon.