Flag Day 2005
Latest count: More than 1700 dead Americans, countless Iraqis; more than 12,000 American wounded (many with debilitating brain injury from head wounds), countless Iraqis.
Politicians should not be allowed to wrap themselves in the flag to disguise this cost.
The flag deserves better. We deserve better.
posted by mireille at 3:29 PM
5 Comments:
It is such a shame and waste. I posted on my blog that I used to put up the American flag every year, but this year, it is difficult to find pride in our country.
5:50 PM
On the Public TV station we get, they show individual pictures of Americans who have died in this war, along with their name and age. They do this in total silence. It's very effective and moving.
But no one speaks of all the innocents in Iraq who have died. Children, mothers, fathers.
Where is the justice in all of this fightig?
7:46 PM
When will we ever learn?
8:03 PM
Sadly, I must agree.
1:37 AM
I keep an ongoing blog where I mention any "Friday night news dump" stories -- news that is generally bad and thus released on Friday evenings, when folks aren't paying attention. I mentioned recently that Fox news has stopped updating its' "fallen heroes" page -- evidently too time-consuming. And of course, the nonmilitary Americans are seldom mentioned at all.
This government no longer speaks for me (or many of my friends and family). I can't even say how unspeakably sad that fact makes me.
Thanks for posting this.
3:46 PM
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