> Hiding Our War Dead. Italy Publicly Honors Its War Dead, America Hides Its Dead
1 April 2005, 16:12
Now we are even hiding our wounded servicemen from public view, one more step in concealing the human cost of the U.S. administration’s unjustified and illegal war. The U.S. serviceman’s newspaper, "Stars and Stripes," reports that USAF flights evacuating those wounded in Iraq to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, after initial treatment in Germany, fly only at night.
Critics say the practice is similar to the White House ban on the filming of honor cordons repatriating war dead to U.S. soil in flag-draped coffins, and this practice extends the dishonor of our dead to include our wounded. “It’s just shameful that the military would try and sneak them in like this and hope no one notices their wounds," states a former Navy officer, shrugging off the night cold among about two dozen protestors outside the Walter Reed gates.
Now we are even hiding our wounded servicemen from public view, one more step in concealing the human cost of the U.S. administration’s unjustified and illegal war. The U.S. serviceman’s newspaper, "Stars and Stripes," reports that USAF flights evacuating those wounded in Iraq to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, after initial treatment in Germany, fly only at night.
Critics say the practice is similar to the White House ban on the filming of honor cordons repatriating war dead to U.S. soil in flag-draped coffins, and this practice extends the dishonor of our dead to include our wounded. “It’s just shameful that the military would try and sneak them in like this and hope no one notices their wounds," states a former Navy officer, shrugging off the night cold among about two dozen protestors outside the Walter Reed gates.
More at http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=28095