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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Another soldier is laid to rest...


This is somewhat off topic for this blog. In surfing the Internet I came across this photo published by Truthout.Org. Images of funerals of Iraqi casualties are rarely seen in the national media. Shouldn't these young men and women be honored as national heroes? Reporting on this war and its casualties has been pretty sanitized. I guess the local media provide coverage of the funerals. Clearly, the Administration would like to downplay the number of casualties. Somewhere I read that both President Bush and Vice-President Cheney had not attended a single funeral of any of the more than 2000 soldiers who have died on behalf of their homeland.

In this photo Gordon Misner Sr., father of Sgt. Gordon Misner II, is consoled by his sister, Suzie, during his son's burial in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Sgt. Gordon Misner II, of the US Army's 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, died February 22nd in Iraq.

Photo: Hunter McRae / AP

posted by Ed Deevy at 8:31 AM

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