(11 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)
Those who Serve the Country Serve the Whole Country and Thus Should Be Given the ‘Honor’ and ‘Respect’ Due Them when Returned to this soil after Dying during that Service!!
There are some groups of people who welcome home the returning soldiers in airports and other transportation points.
We organize rallies for the families and communities on the return of locally based Units of the Reserves, National Guard, and on Army and Marine bases.
We have returning men and women soldiers surprising their young children, and school classmates, and we readily show these surprise homecomings while we watch them with the same tears of joy as the kids.
Some will give a “Welcome Home” and a Handshake when meeting soldiers wherever.
Yet we seem to think that there is supposed to be some sort of Debate about ‘Honoring with Due Respect’ those who return to this country in Flag Drapped Coffins when they are killed Serving The Whole Country, as their Coffins are brought in Quietly and In The Dark of our Media and Citizens. Than the Country, far in the future, Debates wether Memorials should be built and what they should look like.
We should Honor our Fallen as to their Total Sacrifice of their Service, however right or wrong the policies causing their deaths!
Coffins’ Arrival From War Becomes an Issue Again
Those two aspects of the review may well yield opposing perspectives. Britain and Canada, two important allies in the war in Afghanistan, allow far more news media access to the repatriation process – the return of a fallen soldier to his or her country – than does the United States.
The new review has revived an old debate. Supporters of the ban say it protects families’ privacy and keeps the deaths from becoming politicized; critics say the government is trying to sanitize the wars and reduce public awareness of their human cost.
As Of February 22nd, 2009, There Are 91 Pages w/5 ‘Silent Honor Rolls’ Each, Number Of KIA’s Varies With Each ‘Silent Honor Roll’;
Many now have numbers in the teens and twenties
In Honor – In Memory
This Is Not nor Should Be Debatable, it Should Be Policy!!