Dana
>The fact that the government is making such a hullabaloo about pitcures of
>flag draped coffins, and news stations reading the names of the deceased
>soldiers coming under fire.
>
>This pisses me off greatly. These people made the ultimate sacrifice, and
>for what? To be hidden and come back home to nothing but a funeral with
>their families? I am so ashamed that we would treat those fallen hero's with
>anything but the reverent respect they deserve.
>
>Perhaps in the deluded mind of Bush and his peeps, he feels that by not
>showing their coffins or really saying anything about them, that that is
>reverent respect; but in reality it is just hiding the truth of the cost of
>war from the american people to keep our support up for it.
>
>It also doesnt matter to me whether this has been a policy of other
>administrations in the past. The fact is that the people who voluteered to
>"step up" and man the lines of whatever conflict the career politicians feel
>necessary to involve us in should be treated at a level of respect far above
>what the cronies in DC get regularly from most people.
>
>2 cents out.
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