Ya know what I think would be healthy for this country?

[Stinky The Clown]

I think it would be healthy if, even though they are far, far fewer, we could see on the news the bodies coming back to Dover. And maybe a weekly name reading or pictures or something of the dead.

It is long past time.







(Inspired by Matthews' show tonight where the starstruck Mr. Matthews interviewed Ken Bacon.)

edit to change "week" to "weekly"

[Solly Mack]

1. Nah....show the bodies ...the mangled bodies

heads gone, half gone...eyes popped out...jaws hanging off...limbs blown away...ripped and torn flesh dangling.

If we really want to bring the horrors of war home, that is...

A flag draped coffin is too fucking sanitized.

[yy4me]

2. I agree. Having lived through the horrors of Vietnam, with the

daily body counts and pictures of dead soldiers coming home, it is quite sobering. It makes it a more real experience, not an abstract.

President Obama, show the pictures so that we may all be witness to this terrible atrocity.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Having lived through the horrors of Vietnam, with the screaming still in my dreams,

with the blood-red memories of putting the fragments of squadmates into body bags and lifting them onto helicopters, half-deaf these last 40 years from the shockingly loud noises of combat...

I think I personally can live without seeing my nightmares televised. But I also think it would be instructive for all the Hummer hawks and apathetictube-droolers to see a little of it.

[Thothmes]

6. Even then it took eight years to end that war. And that was

with body counts of dozens a week for years on end.

[Mist]

4. A weekly reading of those who have died would be respectful and sobering. Didn't Ted

Koppel do that a few years ago? And get into some trouble for it?

[chollybocker]

5. At the very least.

U.S. war involvement used to be covered as a DOMESTIC issue, involving sons and neighbors. No longer the case.

It's time to bring the images, and the soldiers, back home.