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It makes it real to these people and all of us
because he is a face and a voice that is brought into our home on a daily basis. We aren't seeing the injured soldiers returning, we aren't seeing the dead loaded off the planes, we aren't seeing the war... just bits and pieces of a war that they want us to see.... a censored version of a war. So, to many in the States it makes it real because someone that we know, we see, we hear, has been injured in a war that we really aren't seeing, hearing or knowing very well.
posted by
sassmeback
on January 31, 2006 at 11:43 AM
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Well said, Writer...
posted by
ms_bradrock
on January 31, 2006 at 5:25 AM
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This was a great post writer!
War is terrible. To have to send our young people to fight is not good. It is something I think we must do though. The media is just rotten. Your post is right on the money.
posted by
sarooster
on January 31, 2006 at 5:18 AM
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Scoop, your son has my support, totally and completely.
I was too young to serve in Vietnam, but as we lived in the arrival pattern for Travis AFB in California the war was certainly real to us as every evening a flight of C130s would sweep in over the house from the west before swinging around into the prevailing west wind to land. We knew where they had come from, and to where they would return.
As for media coverage of this war, much is being completely overlooked - rebuilding the country and establishment of the democracy come to mind. My younger son had the honor of serving im Iraq as an advisor during the first election. I still envy him the honor of doing that. But how many stories have you seen in the news about the good that our men and women are doing over there? Pretty damn few. And yet every night the talking heads are eager to let us know that more of our young men and women have been killed for no reason at all, lives wasted for nothing.
posted by
WriterofLight
on January 30, 2006 at 7:32 PM
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I think the war is "real" to some but others it is
out of sight out of mind. It has been almost three years, the same thing happened to Vietnam, as it drags on many don't care. If people saw coffins coming home on the nightly news maybe there would be a different mind set. And showing a flag draped coffin means no disrespect, no one knows who is in there but they do know a war is going on. If some of the news channels didn't show footage of Walter Reed with soldiers and marines going through rehab a lot of the seriousness would be lost.
Back in 2003 when my son went over it was yellow ribbons, flags, and support groups but so much of that has died, Why? People want to see an end. They are tired of the nightly news footage, the reports of money lost on reconstruction, the no end is sight, the ridiculous trial of Saddam Hussein, the stay the course and the same old same old, as we get mucked by Osama's #2 man and terrorism grows around us.
posted by
scoop
on January 30, 2006 at 6:49 PM
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