Photos of 1,000 Dead US Soldiers Laid Out in NYC

[mourningdove92]

Photos of 1,000 Dead U.S. Soldiers Laid Out in NYC


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Photos of more than 1,000 U.S. soldiers who died in Afghanistan (news - web sites) and Iraq (news - web sites) were laid out in Union Square Park in New York on Friday in a display intended to put faces of the fallen before the public.

Coming just days after the 1,000th U.S. soldier died in the war in Iraq, the display was organized by Army veteran Nicholas Cohen, who said merely listing deaths in the newspapers each day did not capture the human cost of the war.

"There's no political organization behind this," said Cohen. "This is about the soldiers."

Dozens of passerby stared quietly as volunteers laid out photos in Union Square, which three years earlier had been the site of makeshift memorials for victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Cohen's mother, Arlene Harrison, said the display was not meant as an anti-war statement.

"We're anti using military force in a knee-jerk way," she said. "We have to have a good, honest, compelling reason before we sacrifice our children."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1896&u=/nm/20040910/us_nm/iraq_usa_memorial_dc&printer=1
rate it a 5 please

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. Thanks for posting, rated story a 5...these deaths must be

reported, honored and recognized. MKJ

[Brundle_Fly]

2. Rated a Five.

good for...absolutely nothing.

[Jade Fox]

5. So, you don't think these soldiers should be honored?

That's why we don't like Bush supporters around here.

[Prodemsouth]

7. yeah he was on another thread trying explain how word was invited to

duplicate type writers- then said at the end he trust 60 minutes more than the current admin.

[Brundle_Fly]

15. what I said

the concept in the development of MS Word was to duplicate the tasks that executive style type writers did, they did it poorly in early versions of word perfect, leading to the self styling of markup language, which made formatting documents very hard to arrange, the advent of the WORD application was to create documents that looked like typewritten documents.....

you cant exactly use word to layout a magazine. You use it as your computers typewriter.

[Brundle_Fly]

16. Bush Supporter.

I am not.

I was singing a famous song, which states war is good for absolutely nothing. Turn on a radio.

Sorry if I made you paranoid.

[pacalo]

18. I got it, brundle. "War" by Edwin Starr (Vietnam era).

[luaneryder]

8. Their deaths were for

nothing or the rating is for nothing or what? What's your meaning?

[TahitiNut]

12. "War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!" (Edwin Starr)

WAR
(Barret Strong, Norman Whitfield/Edwin Star)

War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
War is something that I despise
For it means destruction of innocent lives
For it means tears in thousands of mothers' eyes
When their sons go out to fight to give their lives

War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Say it again
War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing

War
It's nothing but a heartbreaker
War
Friend only to the undertaker
War is the enemy of all mankind
The thought of war blows my mind
Handed down from generation to generation
Induction destruction
Who wants to die

War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Say it again
War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing

War has shattered many young men's dreams
Made them disabled bitter and meanLife is too precious to be fighting wars
each day
War can't give life it can only take it away

War
It's nothing but a heartbreaker
War
Friend only to the undertaker
Peace love and understanding
There must be some place for these things today
They say we must fight to keep our freedom
But Lord there's gotta be a better way
That's better than
War

War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Say it again
War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing

[Brundle_Fly]

14. Thanks

TahitiNut thanks for clearing that up.

I meant no disrespect, I meant the war is stupid is all.

[leftchick]

3. Photo of the photos.....

...so sad :(

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. What a waste

and all because of a lie.

[jimshoes]

6. Just voted it a 5

What I want to know is, who are the people who don't want this solemn rememberance to be seen and vote it a 1. Could it be the same assholes that shout support our troops at anti war demonstrators? Can't have dead bodies spoiling georgies photo ops.

You have given the news article Photos of 1,000 Dead U.S. Soldiers Laid Out in NYC a rating of 5.
Its current average rating is 2.94 with 900 vote(s).

[Cha]

11. They're Scared Shitless of the

Truth getting out there. And Why are they so chickenshit about this?

Exposing bunny pants isn't part of the plan to take over the World?

[mbperrin]

9. 5 for me.

You have given the news article Photos of 1,000 Dead U.S. Soldiers Laid Out in NYC a rating of 5.
Its current average rating is 2.94 with 930 vote(s).


You might think that anybody would get angry about sacrificing people for a lie and some oil, wouldn't you? And that does not even include counting the "other" side as humans who matter, either.

Waste, waste, waste. We are paying and we're going to pay a lot more.

[Cha]

10. Thank you! Rated and yeah, it needs to

to get up there!

[Jacobin]

13. First the NYT whores for the war, now they weep

Fork those warmongering bastards along with David Brooks, Judith Miller, Tom Friedman and the rest of the world conquest gang.

Bastards

[Erika]

17. Barbara Bush Doesn't Want To Waste Her Mind

on pictures of dead American kids. Her mind is a waste. Her remaarks are insensitive, elitist, and stupid. W takes after her.

[pacalo]

19. *ahem* -- Her *beautiful* mind. ;)

Thanks for bringing that up. I read somewhere that Nixon said of her, "Now, that woman knows how to hate." She's a bitch with a man's neck size & man's hands.