Four more years....

[randellwolff]

Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier
Our love will never end
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone
When the letter says a soldier's coming home
--Dixie Chicks, "Travelin' Soldier"

Dead US soldier, killed November 13, 2004

(Picture courtesy of Salon.com.)

Comments

Re: Oh noes, not the gross pixx0rz!!!11!!one

[randellwolff]

Heh. Glad I could be of service. ;)

Re: Oh noes, not the gross pixx0rz!!!11!!one

[randellwolff]

I don't mind bitching.

It's actually the least graphic of the pictures I could have linked to.

I added the word "dead." That's enough, I think.

[devilscarpet]

It's hard not to respond to "agreeably", in response to what you said, when you OBVIOUSLY posted it to try to get shock value.

It's war, though, and if that's shocking, it's because people are unfamiliar with death and how war works. And there are just as many gristly pictures of the other side. I'm not sure what point you were trying to make, but it mostly seems that you were just trying to get shocking responses so you can argue. (Hence: There are a lot more gristly ones I could post.)

[randellwolff]

Gristly? Heh.

Actually, I didn't post this as shock value. I was reading the Salon article, and this picture really affected me. I realized that this was a man who had families and loved ones and that he was dead in some house somewhere miles away from home. That he was missed by people. His life blood had spilled out in this dirty, depressing little place.

Shock value would have been to post the picture and go "BUSH DID THIS!!!!"

I am really sad that people are dying over there, especially for such ambiguous reasons.

I'm also offended that so much has been done by the current administration to hide such pictures. Why are they afraid to show coffins? Why hide pictures of a plane full of wounded soldiers? People ARE shocked to see such pictures, because the war (and many wars) are so sanitized.

But wars are not sanitary. They're dirty and sticky and images from them will stick in your mind.

[devilscarpet]

Once again, I can't help but restate the fact that it's war. Maybe I'm very, very cynical that such pictures don't greatly affect me. They make me sad, but they don't shock me, and they don't make me think worse of war. It makes me angry that people are made because blood is spilt in "dirty, depressing places" like that's some sort of worser death, or make it more profound

[randellwolff]

Heh.

That's very well said, and pretty nihilistic.

Christian nihilism? Hmmmm.