RE: [Leica] Dover USAF base photography & military funerals.

["Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com>]

Tim,
Your very message screams out your political feelings.  WHEN will the
American people wake up that almost 500 people have been killed (on the
American coalition side)?  Yet you were easily able to find the figures.
The military has a daily news conference and my local paper puts
virtually every casualty on the front page.

At this point in the debate, most Americans know approximately how many
people have died.  The problem is that at this point, the numbers have
not changed people's opinion.

What many want to do is shock people with images of coffins which has
nothing to do with news gathering or reporting and everything to do with
political statement.

My suggestion would be to line up 500 coffins in Grand Central Station
instead of harassing the bodies of the dead and their families.

Don
dorysrus@mindspring.com

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Tim
Atherton
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 11:50 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Dover USAF base photography & military funerals.

499 Coalition troops killed in the Iraq Conflict so far (354 KIA; 145
Non-combat related deaths)

2,368 US Troops Wounded (2026 wounded in action; 342 US troops wounded
in
non-hostile incidents.

Just by listening to a daily litany from Central Command of "two more US
soldiers were killed north of Baghdad" etc, do the American people get
an
honest sense of these numbers?

These young men and women have died and been wounded on behalf of those
who
sent them there. Surely the American (and British) people should both
honour
them and be fully aware of the cost being paid. Currently, it is in
effect,
being hidden.

tim a



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