Pictures of coffins of the dead American soldiers

I can see a respectful side of showing our war dead if done respectfully and reverently I suppose. Ronald Reagans funeral brought tears to my eyes. If you would be the kind of person that shows your respect by observing the return of our fallen heros, then so be it. We all have our ways of showing respect.

But I know the only reason any commercial American media would show them would be out of sensationalism and not out of respect. For that reason I'd prefer if they did not exploit my son's or daughter's remains/casket should they ever die for our country.

So I'd have to say...uh....no.
 
Which goes back to my aguement that there is something wrong with the whole Iraq mess in the first place. Only Totalatarian governments keep the truth from the people and people who support such government wrap themselves in the flag to hide thier crimes.
 
Well if actually showing the truth of the situation over there will turn the opinion against the war, the war is based on very strong principles, is it? If, as you have said countless times, it is worth dying for the stuff we are doing, people should see that real people really are dying for it every day. That said I also think they should show the positive results that are happening over there rather than only focusing on the negative side of the war. Show the cost and the benefit and let people decide whether it is and was worth it.
 
Nobody said anything about hiding the truth. We find out every day how many soldiers die. There's no need to repeatedly show pictures of flag-draped coffins. Show the faces and the names! Show their families!

There is nothing gained from showing a plane load of coffins. One cannot identify who's in each one? It does not much more than convey a number. It's just short of showing a pile of naked dead bodies, such as we saw with Hitler's Holocaust. It is meant to (by the liberal media) to rouse the anger of viewers rather than to honor the dead soldiers inside the caskets.

Liberalism is a mental disorder!
 
It would show that there are real people dying over there not some faceless number. VOR you are all for sacrifice to your country. I would have thought you would agree with me that those dying men and women need to be shown and their sacrifice shown on every TV and newspaper. People tend to forget that in war people die. Then again are you afraid that if the coffins are shown that people would turn against your beloved president and his vendetta war.
 
So you're telling me without any thought or manipulation (call 'em as I sees 'em) whenever you look at the wall you think of how because of particular politicians they died in vain. You don't think about their sacrifice, you don't think about their families, you think about current politicians and their actions, that is a dishonor to everyone who served and died in that war, they gave their lives for this country and the thanks you give them is to use them as an excuse to trash John Kerry and Jane Fonda.
 
It seems to me that on more than one occassion I recal the camera panning the many white heaRABtones of Arlington Cemetery. Usually to inspire patriotism and honor for the fallen.

I can see the cameras also panning flag draped coffins on a runway tarmac to inspire anger and dissent.

Regardless of the reason for public exhibition, it is done to provoke and manipulate an emotion. I don't think it's ever done to honestly respect the inhabitants of those coffins. To me, that's exploitation.

That's why I wouldn't want my loved ones being pawned off as such.
 
I can see a positive side to showing people the dirty face of war. But the people aren't the one's deciding really. The people behind the wars prefer to keep it tidy to maintain support.

But, again, I can't see it being done for respect. Only to exploit.
 
I don't need to see the bodies to know brave young men and women are dying in Iraq..........All i have to do is turn on ABC,CBS,NBC or CNN........They tell you all the time........
 
Showing their names and faces would be fine too because that too shows there are real people behind the numbers. But alas, the government doesn't even do that.
 
I still remember the last time I went to the wall, one of my close friend's grandpa died there a week before he was supposed to get out. He and his dad were both there and they read letters from his grandpa from Vietnam and the last one was about how he would be back in a week and be glad to see them and they both broke down and cried and I could feel how much they lost, how much a life is worth. Then we went to the wall and saw how many of these lives had been lost, how many families were just like the one my friend was in, missing something important, a life. Every time I saw on the news or in the paper about a certain number of people dying I would always think of how many families would me broken apart, never to see their loved one again. That was the day that war became real to me, I had been to the wall before and all I saw then was a list of names. From that point forward I saw it as real people, who had real families that loved them and were broken apart. From that point forward, I will never accept us going into a war unless we are in danger. When we got hit on 9/11 I felt a response attack was necessary, but I will never support a war that isn't very necessary because I realize that your quote is correct, "war is hell".

I think showing coffins will also help people realize the impact of this war. When you hear 100 people died it doesn't sound like a lot because we lose that many a lot, but if you saw 100 coffins lined up (showing the people and their families is a great idea too, and shows more respect to the dead person), you would realize the cost of this or any war. I get the washington post and every month it will have pictures of all the people from the area who died in Iraq that month and it just makes me think of the pain all the people are going through. I think people need to see this, they need to see the cost of war and the reality that "war is hell". But as I said before they should also see the progress made. They should see pictures of how Iraq was before we got rid of Saddam, and pictures of how it is now. That way they can make an educated decision about whether to support the war or not, whether the sacrifice was truly necessary.
 
On a separate note I also felt really bad when I went to the wall last I happened to be wearing my "baseball is life" T-shirt. When I saw people crying in front of the wall and looked at my shirt, I felt kind of bad because these people's lives were much more than baseball.
 
Well John Kerry and jane Fonda are 2 of the reasons we cut and run in Nam......They led the charge against the war there.....They called people that fought for their country in Viet Nam murderers, rapists and baby killers......They and people like them are the reason Vietnam Vets were called names and spit on upon their return from Vietnam..................

Young fellow don't ever tell me that I don't think about their sacrafice.......I think about it every day of my life, and because of the people I mentioned they gave their lives for nothing............

We will never cut and run and desert the brave people of Iraq no matter how much the left whines about us being there.........
 
You have a right to your opinion about how bad Kerry and Fonda were, I don't know the details, but it is downright dishonorable to use their sacrifice to trash politicians. You can be angry at these people, but when you think of the people dead, please think of the people and the sacrifice they made, not the actions of politicians in terms of the war. No matter what the conditions of the war and politicians in the war, remember the troops and the sacrifice they made, not the actions of other politicians.



But on the topic of John Kerry and Jane Fonda. I don't know much about what happened, and I would like to know. I had heard a little bit about it and I was under the impression that they just told the truth of what was happening over there sort of like Abu Grahb back then. Obviously then and now calling all soldiers baby killers is bad and if that's what they were specifically advocating then I would agree with you that what they did was dishonorable, but I thought they just told the truth and people over-reacted. Please enlighten me further, that's all I know.
 
I am no fan of John Kerry and Jane Fonda oughta be taken out and shot, if you ask me, but I hardly blame them for the all the deaths in Viet Nam that were in vain. I lay that squarely on the shoulders of the baffoons that were in Washington. By any measure, the Viet Nam conflict was a bad call. Our soldiers tried to fight a war with their hanRAB tied. The North Viet Namese were fiercely committed to their cause.

Just my opinion.
 
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