Wednesday, November 4, 2009


One of the biggest topics in the news today is war.  As everyone knows, the common trend is to follow what comes with war which is violence.  Nothing can grab a person to the news like an act of violence or trouble.  After all, that is all that the news reports.  At least what it wants you to see.  Recently though, in order to bring attention to the tragedies of war, the United States has allowed the press to report on the arrival of soldiers killed during the current wars it takes part in today.  Up until recent, images of the the arriving coffins draped with the American flag have been prohibited.  Now images like the one shown, have been appearing more and more, in attempts to hopefully realize that the war has more than a dollar value at stake.

1 comment:

  1. This is a powerful image that graphically conveys the cost of war, probably why the previous Administration banned photos of returning caskets.

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