The Associated Press Has Gone To Far

[RICHARD]

Well Richard, I really don't think there is any way to sanitize it. War, and death by war is dirty. We all know that. We've seen way too much of it in our lifetime.

I want you to go to the window, open it up and yell, "I am as mad as HELL and I 'm not going to take this anymore."

The perfect example of this -not to say that they compare in any way- is what is happening at the Town Hall Meetings.

People are ticked off and getting the morons in charge to listen to them

Why? It's a matter of here and now, not over there and yesterday-as the war has become.

The reason the protests against the war were, and still are, ineffectual is the way they were organized.

How's about showing up at a rep's office two, three times a week? Nope, I used to pass the idiots gathered on a street corner in Burbank telling people to beep their horns against the war. IT's Friday night! Let's go stand on the street corner for a few hours, then go shopping at IKEA, it's a block away!

Up the street there is a Blue Star Highway Memorial at a park.....

Why not set up a protest there?

Nope they want to be on the corner where they yell and scream, make people slow down and gawk.

That will end the war really soon.

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A little distaste and reminder what the war is, a place far, far away from our comfortable lives, is what we need.

We do not stop and think about the war often.

LCpl. Bernard is someone we won't forget soon and that is a good thing.
The way he died may be too graphic for our tastes, but he's become everyone's brother, in-law, dad, cousin, nephew and kid we grew up with in the neighborhood.

Death on some road far away from home is not glamorous, Neither is the way he died. At the moment we care more about the coverage of his death, not the way he lived and served.

That is the crime here.

[pomtzu]

Touche.

But I still say that the manner in which it is reported, must be sensitive and respectful of that life that was ended far from home. It won't make it any less tragic, but at least it will show compassion.

[RICHARD]

Touche.

But I still say that the manner in which it is reported, must be sensitive and respectful of that life that was ended far from home. It won't make it any less tragic, but at least it will show compassion.

I sat in a class room and watched a 'school approved' film of a bulldozer pushing a stack of bodies into a trench at one of the "Konzentrationslager" us Americans liberated. TO THIS DAY that has always bothered me. I watch the Military Channel docus on concentration camps to see if I will catch that clip again.

I want to know if it was as gruesome then as it would be today.

This was way back in the day, so there were no concerned parents to complain about it. So, we watched it and held that horror deep inside our hearts.

How many people to you have to bury when you stop using shovels and start using diesel engined plows to shove them into the dirt and cover them?

Check it out.

The parents of today let these miserable little effers play violent video games- "the blood looks so real!!", yet we all have a problem with watching Private Everyone's Son get jacked with an RPG or an IED?

At the beginning of the book and movie "Blackhawk Down" is a quote from Plato that kinda goes....."Only the dead have seen the end of war."

All the rest of us can relive it on You Tube, the Inter Web and irresponsible media outlets like the AP and all the jackholes that contribute to The Huffingtones Post.

[pomtzu]

I've put in my 2 cents worth without offending anyone - I think. And with that, I really don't have anything else to contribute - unless someone has something really stupid to say (IMO), then I just might have to chime back in.

So all - have a happy Labor Day. Hmmm - labor is to work, so why do so many have the day off??? Chill - I'm being facetious!!!