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I have none for anyone who would use pictures of fallen soldiers to further a political agenda so alien to those who volunteered to serve our country. And Soldiers are not peacenicks.
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You may seem to have a point, but I know plenty of real soldiers that want to make people feel the same fear, and have to know the same feelings they had when they saw dead children for the first time. Your right – nobody’s a “Peacenik” until they get back. Not that many really do get back, they don’t sit in control rooms, fire missiles from a ships or airplanes, and none, nada, zip zero, none of them were in the Texas Air Guard. Some of these few serve our government now, but many became social outcasts, homeless drug addicted garbage. Kerry’s now being made a mockery of for youthful indiscretion, and maybe embellishing the truth some, in order to make a point. In my mind those pictures of him walking with a rifle and being close enough to be hit by shrapnel, no matter how minor, gives him a right that Bush does not have. Showing the pictures of the fallen is like giving them a salute. Keeping the public sanitized in any way, when we’re killing and being killed is disrespectful of the young people being asked to live with their memories.