New York Times Faces of the Dead

[songfourone]

Each United States service members who has died in Iraq or Afghanistan, and has been identified by the Defense Department is represented by a small square in the picture. The squares are ordered by date of death, with the most recent in the upper left hand corner.


http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/u...opes_gregory_t

The New York times has published the war dead since the start of the war, and my husband would post it outside his office.

[slapshot]

One never truly appreciates the magnitude of war's human destruction, until visualized. I served in the Vietnam war, and always knew of the numbers that were killed and injured. But it wasn't until I first saw "The Wall", several decades later, that it truly hit home for me.

Thanks for the link.

[songfourone]

One never truly appreciates the magnitude of war's human destruction, until visualized. I served in the Vietnam war, and always knew of the numbers that were liked and injured. But it wasn't until I first saw "The Wall", several decades later, that it truly hit home for me.

Thanks for the link.

Same reason I posted the thread from Huffington Post and pictures of the 1280 gun deaths since Sandy Hook.

Bush would not let the caskets coming into Dover be photographed, he believed the resolve would waiver once citizens saw the dead coming home.
The New York Times published each and every soldier causality.

[gonzoliberal]

...and the reason for all this carnage?

Bueller...?

Bueller...?

...

As a 61yr old vet that remembers the Vietnam bullcrap all too well, I ask, "have we learned nothing?".

[Omaha Beach]

Iraqi war dead ; Afghanistan war dead. Next stop looks like African war dead. We NEVER learn.

[Smokey 1]

Iraqi war dead ; Afghanistan war dead. Next stop looks like African war dead. We NEVER learn.

Maybe it's because the ones doing the "deciding" are not the ones doing the "dying".

[RHB]

Maybe it's because the ones doing the "deciding" are not the ones doing the "dying".

All armed forces are volunteer, so those who serve choose to serve.

[AttackPlanR]

Iraqi war dead ; Afghanistan war dead. Next stop looks like African war dead. We NEVER learn.

Actually, we learned quite a long time ago. War is good for business. If it wasn't we wouldn't be in a state of perpetual war. Our actions now assure us that there will always be some place where people "hate our freedoms" and therefore there will always be a place where we need to send troops to die under that guise. And Africa looks to be the place we haven't been, yet.

[gonzoliberal]

Actually, we learned quite a long time ago. War is good for business. If it wasn't we wouldn't be in a state of perpetual war. Our actions now assure us that there will always be some place where people "hate our freedoms" and therefore there will always be a place where we need to send troops to die under that guise. And Africa looks to be the place we haven't been, yet.

Cynical, but true.

Now that the Pentagoons have figured out how to have a war now and pay for it later, the sky's unlimited.