This is why I hate my government

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OK, it's only one reason among many, but the ban on showing photos of soldier's coffins or funerals sticks in my craw as an immobile lump. Behind a cut, I am posting pictures (pulitzer prize winning photos at that) that seemed to have somehow slipped pass the censors. (Why are there censors in a country founded on freedom of the press?)

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The rest of the photo set (20 in all) can be found here:
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2006/feature-photography/works/
The captions and backstory behind them back them all that much mor powerful

Seriously, these photos, and more importantly the events that they capture make me so angry at my so-called leaders, that pack of conniving, lying, mother-less shit-heels, that they would deprive the nation of the right to grieve our collective loss... That they would send people to a far-off land to die for no apparent reason, and still be trying to do it more FIVE YEARS later staggers my ability to believe. I only wish I could carry these photos around with me all the time, so the next time someone wondered to me why I'm so cynical and angry, I could just show them. "This is the handiwork of our leaders, this blood and death is on all of our hands" is what I would say.

(and before anyone corrects me, I'm aware that as Marines, these people should not be referred to as 'soldiers', but I'm taking editorial liberties as 'men and women of the armed forces' is just too cumbersome)