I was curious to know why you included pictures of injured/dead children in with pictures of injured soldiers, grieving wives and family at grave sites, etc? I understand that the injured children are a reality of the collateral damage done, but is it you believe that our soldiers are out there purposefully targeting children and innocent families?
The purpose is to memorialize all the victims of war: servicemembers killed and maimed, families, innocent bystanders, taxpayers who are extorted to fund armaments at the expense of greater needs, the kidnapped of mercenaries who emulate national warmakers.
Sanitized memorials are cruelly deceptive by institutionalizing, excusing even celebrating, sacrifice, suffering and death without recourse to support means to avoid pain, grief and desparation.
Those who give their lives, and those damaged but still alive, should not be diminished by shallow commeration which mocks reality.
"Reality of collateral damage" is deeply offensive for it exculpts those responsible among warmakers and gullible citizenry. Much of the orchestrated memorialization does that as well by concealing the horrors of warfare.
I'm a vet who prefers to honor all victims with the truth of what was done to them by liars, cowards and profiteers. source: cryptome
IDIOT AMERICA GOT SLICKED AGAIN, THIS TIME WITH DUAL WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN. ALL BUT OVER, WAITING FOR FINAL PULLOUT FROM AFGHANISTAN AND NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT, NOTHING. FAILING TO HEED TO LESSON OF VIETNAM, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WERE STIRRED INTO A WAR FRENZY BY THE 9/11 ATTACKS. THOSE ATTACKS WERE NEVER PROPERLY OR THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATED AND FOR ALL INTENSIVE PURPOSES SWEPT UNDER THE RUG. NOW "W" AKA, "THE DECIDER" WHO LED THE NATION OFF TO WAR ON FABRICATED INTEL IS NOW SUPPOSEDLY A KINDLY GRANDFATHER, PAINTING PORTRAITS OF PUPPY DOGS AS HE FADES INTO THE SUNSET.
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY.