Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

[dflprincess]

(it is sweet and right to die for your country)

This letter was in yesterday's Strib I just can't get my head around anyone thinking like this:

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/letters/25446529.html?location_refer=Letters:highlightModules:5

MILITARY BLACKOUT

Let us show our pride

If there is an unforeseen consequence of the Pentagon's policy to shield Americans from viewing flag-draped caskets of soldiers and the military burials that honor them -- it may diminish a pride that might have inspired future youth to aspire to military service.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. WTF?

Yeah, I'd be so proud of the possibility I could come home from a war in a flag-draped coffin that I'd run right down to the Army recruiting office to enlist. Uh huh. That would get me to join up, for sure.

:eyes:

That's some seriously weird thinking.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. It would serve as a reminder that yes, you get to wear a uniform and

shoot guns and act like a macho-macho man and stuff, but then when you go to Iraq, where people shoot back.

[loveable liberal]

3. Obviously someone with no stake (or kids)

to sacrifice for oil.