AF6872
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Maybe they should do it this way. "Taking Chance" 2/21/09.
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi113247001/
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi113247001/
I think we all know, the reason for the ban is not to protect the families- rather it is to protect the image of the President.
Let me pose it this way...explain to me the need of taking a picture of a casket. What does it do for you personally that you want or desire to see it?
Let me pose it this way...explain to me the need of taking a picture of a casket. What does it do for you personally that you want or desire to see it? I am not trying to be antagonistic, I am truly trying to wrap my head around anyones desire to see a flag draped casket.
You are a proud parent of a child that is entering the military in 2 short yrs, if that day ever comes, and I hope and pray it doesn't. Are you okay having flashbulbs clicking in your face as your family goes to greet him? If you are please explain why, b/c personally as it is clear to see...I am not and I just don't get the morbid fascination that people have with wanting to share my pain. You do understand that one of the things the PA office is afraid of is that families will feel the need to be there or will not because of the media. The decision to attend shouldn't be determined by the media no matter what, but people will make a decision that way.
Thanks for your candid remarks. This is getting way off topic. Perhaps you could start a new thread - call it:
My problem wiht Just_A_Mom and why I have a need to make fun of, talk down to and attack everything she says even though I don't know anything about her.
I want specifics. Tell me about myself. Tell me who I voted for, my own opinion of the military and the WOT, how this makes me a bad person and why you and your friends feel the need to gang up on me.
I am posing that to anyone and everyone.
If we state it is to honor them...wouldn't the obit do a better job than a pic of the casket? If we state it is to prove a political point, than isn't it wrong to use their death for someone elses desires?
I agree that every family member should chose on their own...it is a private and personal decision...as I stated many posts ago at least in the AF we have death packets that we fill out...the commander would know the service members desire long before the wheels hit the tarmac in Dover.
CC your point is well noted.
Does this mean that the Government should call for an all out ban on the press? Could this decision not be left to the families involved?
I think we all know, the reason for the ban is not to protect the families- rather it is to protect the image of the President.
So; unless you have some PROOF that the reason for limiting media coverage of coffins is purely political and for the president's agenda; then I suggest you keep it to yourself. The ACCEPTED reason for the limitation of media coverage is for respect and the privacy of the family. Unless you have proof otherwise, work with the accepted reason.
personnaly I just don't think your opinions benefit the U.S. Armed Forces.
Accepted by whom? Let's put the shoe on the other foot. Prove that it was to respect the privacy of the family. However, I will not be so bold as to dictate your right to your opinions as you seem to wish to do with JAM.