Honor The Troops

"It is a daily occurrence these days to see X number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq or Afghanistan scrolling across the ticker at the bottom of the TV screen. People have come to expect casualty counts in the nightly news; they don't expect to see 32 students killed," he wrote.

"If the flags on our (operating bases) were lowered for just one day after the death of a service member, it would show the people who knew the person that society cared, the American people care."
--Sgt. 1st Class Dean Welch, YahooNews

I noticed this double standard in press coverage last week, but chose not to comment on it because, at the time, it seemed too sensitive. Yet, if a soldier says it, then I feel it is okay because a soldier has more credibility on these issues than I do.

In addition to agreeing with Sgt. Welch that the press should devote time to our soldiers, I also feel that the press coverage for Iraqi civilians killed by bombings is also under-reported.

The slaughter of civilians on the scale of the Virgina Tech killings happens almost on a daily basis in Iraq. Yet, like our fallen soldiers, it too is only given a passing mention.

President Bush said this on April 18, 2007 at Blacksburg, Va.

"Those whose lives were taken did nothing to deserve their fate," the president said.

"They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now they're gone -- and they leave behind grieving families, and grieving classmates, and a grieving nation."
--President Bush, Detroit News

Profound isn't it?

Thanks for reading the crap i typed.