> Hiding Our War Dead. Italy Publicly Honors Its War Dead, America Hides Its Dead
23 March 2005, 17:21
Being a wife with her husband over in Iraq, I know what this is like on the family members. I’ve personally lost two very good friends in this war, and I can’t say that I would feel it appropriate if we displayed their death like some sort of parade. At both funerals, the families were paid their respects in a personal and tackful way. The towns the soldiers lived in were very caring, making signs and by offering to help the families in any way they could. I know that if my husband were to be killed, I would not want a huge display shown to the world. Let me mourn with the important people in my life, not with the whole country or world watching. In the USA, our daily lives are conducted more privately than most other countries and that’s OK. Like I mentioned before, our towns, friends and family are the important factors while dealing with a loss, not a world of people who never knew the fallen.
Being a wife with her husband over in Iraq, I know what this is like on the family members. I’ve personally lost two very good friends in this war, and I can’t say that I would feel it appropriate if we displayed their death like some sort of parade. At both funerals, the families were paid their respects in a personal and tackful way. The towns the soldiers lived in were very caring, making signs and by offering to help the families in any way they could. I know that if my husband were to be killed, I would not want a huge display shown to the world. Let me mourn with the important people in my life, not with the whole country or world watching. In the USA, our daily lives are conducted more privately than most other countries and that’s OK. Like I mentioned before, our towns, friends and family are the important factors while dealing with a loss, not a world of people who never knew the fallen.