What the Pentagon doesn't want you to see...

seeing pictures of gi coffins (like this) is bad for the public's morale:



for some reason, the 350 photos posted at thememoryhole.org aren't available today -- maybe the tons of site traffic, or maybe they were shut down by the feds -- gotta love a mystery.

but, if the site has so much traffic, the pictures must be something the american public wants to see, right?

UPDATE: so much controversy.

first of all, with due respect to the families, I do not find the availability and viewing of this photo as an invasion of the families' privacy. after all, I have no idea who's remains these are.

these are my impressions of this particular photo:

it is well balanced, emotion-provoking and thought-provoking
here are 24 americans, no names, no religions, no ethnicity...simply americans
we are all equal in death, but most of us won't be buried draped in the flag.
these 24 are heroes.

we can honor those who give their lives "to secure the world's freedom" by allowing the public to take notice, even if only the moment the photo front page of the paper

or we can dishonor these 24 americans by hiding their deaths and sacrifices behind a wall of secrecy falsely claimed to be protecting the families, but in reality aimed at preventing another "vietnam effect" of domestic hostility to the "war."

our government should be accountable to the people -- the people need to know the reality of our choice to fight a war -- before they turn back to the "o.c." and "apprentice" and whatever other mind-numbing opiate-for-the-masses programming is being dished out.

people will still have a healthy dose of denial, and will support getting whoever caused nine-eleven, so the government should not be so concerned about the "vietnam effect" -- that is, until we see 50,000 of these coffins lined up. [of course, we are all still wondering what Iraq had to do with nine-eleven.]