Honor Guard Ceremony
May 2nd 2005MichaelAnti-America
Freedom of information Act in action
The Pentagon on April 28 released more than 700 photographs of America’s war dead returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. But many of the images, released under the pressure of a yearlong Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, are as striking for what they don’t show as what they do.
This is the work of the left/liberal/progressive/socialists, to change public opinion of what is going on in the Global War on Terror. These people think that we should publish all information about the people we lose in war and there families and the people that help bring them home.
In most photographs the faces of the troops accompanying the fallen and carrying the flag-draped coffins are blacked out.
While in the Marine Corps I learned that I have to hold myself to a higher standard. Not because I am better, but because others before me were better. When they have fallen in the defense of America with their band of brothers. We show them the highest respect because they have earned it. Blocking out the faces and identifying tags is not done out of disrespect but out of respect for our fallen. It is not about the people on Honor Guard Duty, It is about our fallen.
Defense Department spokesman Col. Gary Keck said an “individual judgment” was made by the FOIA office to black out some faces and identifying information “to protect privacy and or security information.” Keck said he had no more information, while the FOIA office referred calls back to Defense Department public affairs.
The FOLA was right in blocking out these faces while enabling the scene to be shown. I would have rather not had these pictures public. This is not a public show. Is this an attempt of the left to change the American support of our military action in the GWOT?
Yes, this is an attempt of some to change support and drag our military back into the mud like Hanoi Jane did back in her day. Spiting in the face is too go for these people. They need to be tried for Treason.
Cross Posted at : Flight Pundit and The Wide Awakes
