Christcorp
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I guess if we want to honor the sacrifices of all those unwed mothers who sacrifice their all by having abortions, we should start honoring their sacrifices by photographing them. As you can see, Pima, I am not quite following your analogy.
The fallen troops died for all of us — they died for the nation, they died for the cause. It's a right for all Americans to pay their respects for those who made the sacrifice. It is not a right held exclusively for the families themselves.
I think that's why there are memorials all over the country in honor of our fallen comrades. That's why the have funds set up to assist the spouses and children of the fallen. There's a lot of ways to honor those who have given their all for us besides having a bunch of reporters filming and clicking away cameras.
Can you imagine waiting on the tarmac as the plane pulls up. It's your husband, wife, mother, father, sister, brother in the back of the plane. Every inch that the plane gets closer, you keep praying that it's all a bad dream. You feel your insides being torn as the plane opens up. The honor guard is in place as caskets are taken out of the plane. And instead of just your family; the family of the others; and your military family there to comfort each other; you've got this nice tape barricade behind or along side of you with 10 or so reporters. They are filming and taking pictures. They CAN'T show respect, because they're just doing their job. I can feel the honor now.
People talk about the American people's rights because the fallen fell for everyone. That's fine; but the immediate family's rights trump theirs. EVERY TIME!!! Now; if the military wants to take pictures and have a press package that they give out for the media; that would be good. Better yet, if the media really cares about bringing the fallen heros into the homes of the American people; yea right; the could show picture of the fallen on the screen in uniform with their names. They only want caskets to sensationalize the situation. If it was a precession on the way to arlington or similar, I could even see that. That would be respectful. But caskets coming off the back of a plane or in a hanger with the family present is just plain disrespectful.