I'd say Medal of Honor, Sergeant Majors and Full Birds and above. Honestly you have any idea how many funerals would be involved otherwise?
If we use 3000 as a nice round number it's like 2 a day or something, and it wouldn't be nice and neat like that, because with bombings and attacks you have multiple KIA at the same time. Something else to remember, yes it's great to recognize troops for their sacrifices, but a certain level of emotional detachment is required to prosecute a war on the sharp end. I do think the photo thing was over the top though. -----Original Message----- From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 12:31 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Defense Sec Gates Breaks Down > WillBo wrote: > actually yes. > To me, I would think it would be great idea to attend Majors and above as well as notables: e.g., somebody jumps on a grenade and saves his platoon and is issued a DSC or something after death. However, it does seem like there's an effort to sanitize the war: things are always "getting better" even though they're not, etc. I just found it refreshing that the SecDef would single out an individual, tell his story, talk about his family, and tell America what a great person they had just lost. Basically by doing this, the Pentagon is saying that there's a cost to the war and here it is. That good information and a data point that Americans can use to judge the policy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:238942 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
