From an email off one of my lists:
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Found on another forum:
Amy Winehouse dies and the media goes crazy...
Justin Allen, 23; Brett Linley, 29; Matthew Weikert, 29; Justus
Bartett, 27; Dave Santos, 21; Jesse Reed, 26; Matthew Johnson, 21;
Zachary Fisher, 24; Brandon King, 23; Christopher Goeke, 23; Sheldon
Tate, 27; [These] are all US Marines that died for you this week! There
is no media for them... Not even a mention of their names.
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Who in hell was Amy Winehouse? I vaguely remember hearing the name a while back in connection with another celebrity overdose or tantrum or something.
"Celebrities" and "stars" are fun to follow, if you have no life of your own, but I remember seeing newspapers from WWII where there were listings of all the dead and wounded, and not to make points about war being evil - they were killed or injured fighting to preserve our way of life. Respect was given as a matter of course.
Modern wars might not be so critical to our personal survival here at home, but out servicemen and women certainly deserve at least as much attention as some pop singer.
One thing I see about being near a smaller city - Beloit and Janesville papers occasionally report on servicemen in a positive light, where the Chicago papers hardly ever had anything at all to say.
Your email list seems to be a year out of date on the names of the Army and Marine personnel who died, they, along with the British Army Staff Sergeant all died in 2010.
ReplyDeletePerhaps, but the issue stands. Small town papers tend to publish lists of killed or wounded servicemen, large (primarily Demonrat) cities tend to ignore them, unless there's some anti-war or anti-American point to be made.
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