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Taken from the paper "The Army Times" dated January 5th 2004:

Faces of the Fallen
U.S. troops who died since Jan. 1 [2003].

“More than 500 service members died in operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom in 2003, a group that represents the full, rich face of America’s diversity.”

You can pick up a copy at most major book stores, except that this is an old article (they come out every two weeks) so you may have to order it. On the other hand I can scan and email the pages for you but I can’t guarantee the quality of the color photos, that way you can look at the pictures and see the men and women, young and older, husbands and wives, daughters and sons, officers and enlisted that came home in body bags. Yes I agree with free speech! And I for one was laughing my proverbial buttocks off as I looked at these faces. Oh look that one was only 19 ha-ha-ha, and quick look on this page he was 54, I bet his grandchildren are laughing as hard as I am. Ha-ha-ha, but the kicker of them all, the one that really cracks me up so much that I pee my pants is this one 27 year old female Sergeant, know what’s so funny about that? She died in her husbands arms; get it because he sure did HA-HA-HA.

There is a very thick line between free speech and calling even one of these deceased a moron and not a single one of us here can separate the morons from the non-morons, I agree with Atrocities in that it might have been funny at another time.

Times of war are the best times to make fun of the military? I don’t agree with that, no I would say that times of war are the best times to make fun of the government that sent the military into combat. Government does not equal military (soldiers) but the two are too often freely swapped in speech, that is a side effect I feel of our society’s freedom.