In Iraq, the 1880+ soldiers dead are those that died on the battlefield. It
does not include those that passed away from their wounds on the way to, or
while in the hospital.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Winsor Crosby" <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 9:39 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Euphemisms be damned
>
> Not to worry. Reporters are being barred from the area. We will no
> longer see the non-survivors in the same way we don't see the caskets
> of the suddenly discharged from Iraq. And people who track the body
> count will be called traitors.
>
>
>
> 1) Sep 7, 4:27 PM (ET)
> By Deborah Zabarenko
>
> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When U.S. officials asked the media not to
> take pictures of those killed by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath,
> they were censoring a key part of the disaster story, free speech
> watchdogs said on Wednesday.
>
> The move by the Federal Emergency Management Agency is in line with
> the Bush administration's ban on images of flag-draped U.S. military
> coffins returning from the Iraq war, media monitors said in separate
> telephone interviews.
>
> "It's impossible for me to imagine how you report a story whose
> subject is death without allowing the public to see images of the
> subject of the story," said Larry Siems of the PEN American Center,
> an authors' group that defends free expression.
>
> U.S. newspapers, television outlets and Web sites have featured
> pictures of shrouded corpses and makeshift graves in New Orleans.
>
> But on Tuesday, FEMA refused to take reporters and photographers
> along on boats seeking victims in flooded areas, saying they would
> take up valuable space need in the recovery effort and asked them not
> to take pictures of the dead.
>
> In an e-mail explaining the decision, a FEMA spokeswoman wrote: "The
> recovery of victims is being treated with dignity and the utmost
> respect and we have requested that no photographs of the deceased by
> made by the media."
>
> 2) And Brian Williams, NBC reports
>
> While we were attempting to take pictures of the National Guard (a
> unit from Oklahoma) taking up positions outside a Brooks Brothers on
> the edge of the Quarter, the sergeant ordered us to the other side of
> the boulevard. The short version is: there won't be any pictures of
> this particular group of Guard soldiers on our newscast tonight.
> Rules (or I suspect in this case an order on a whim) like those do
> not HELP the palpable feeling that this area is somehow separate from
> the United States.
>
> At that same fire scene, a police officer from out of town raised the
> muzzle of her weapon and aimed it at members of the media... obvious
> members of the media... armed only with notepads. Her actions
> (apparently because she thought reporters were encroaching on the
> scene) were over the top and she was told. There are automatic
> weapons and shotguns everywhere you look. It's a stance that perhaps
> would have been appropriate during the open lawlessness that has long
> since ended on most of these streets. Someone else points out on
> television as I post this: the fact that the National Guard now bars
> entry (by journalists) to the very places where people last week were
> barred from LEAVING (The Convention Center and Superdome) is a kind
> of perverse and perfectly backward postscript to this awful chapter
> in American history.
>
>
>
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 8, 2005, at 11:09 AM, Walt Wayman wrote:
>
>> CNN is referring to the floaters in New Orleans as "non-
>> survivors." Give me a f**king break! They're corpses, fatalities,
>> dead people -- take your pick! What's next? Maybe we can call
>> them immobile water sports enthusiasts, or how about just
>> terminally uninterested in current events. Jeez!
>>
>> Walt
>
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