Also see: A Trip Through Arlington
And what might your loved ones say tomorrow?
"Inscriptions at Arlington irk some; Headstones bear operation names" by Christian Davenport, Washington Post | October 17, 2010
WASHINGTON — Along the meticulously spaced rows of graves at Arlington National Cemetery, the names of the nation’s wars are clearly etched into the headstones: World War I, World War II, Vietnam, Korea, the Persian Gulf.
Soon, a new inscription for troops killed in Iraq could appear: Operation New Dawn.
Also see: Occupation Iraq: New Day Dawning
Occupation Iraq: From Dawn to Dusk
Same as it ever was except I'm told we are running for the exits in my paper.
Whatever. How many mercenaries we leaving behind?
Unlike in past wars, the overwhelming majority of headstones for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan at the nation’s most hallowed military burial ground use the military’s official names for those conflicts: Operation Enduring Freedom for Afghanistan, Operation Iraqi Freedom for Iraq. As of Sept. 1, Operation Iraqi Freedom has been rebranded Operation New Dawn.
Some families and veterans’ groups say those slogans are little more than propaganda tactics, ways for politicians and the Pentagon to sanitize the wars and drum up public support....
That's the AmeriKan newspaper's main function, yeah.
Using the words “new dawn’’ to mark a person’s final resting place is inappropriate, even insulting, some family members say. “It’s not a new dawn; we lost a son,’’ said Oscar Aviles, whose son Andrew, a Marine Corps lance corporal, was killed in Iraq in 2003. “It’s just a lot of pain and anguish.’’
Yeah, he has a huge point.
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And NEVER YOU MIND the MILLIONS of INNOCENT VICTIMS of AmeriKan aggression and invasion that was pushed by the same war-promoting press on behalf of mass-murdering, war-criminal madmen!
