Hello All!! I just have to pause from my posting to make an observation. Right now I am posting obituaries and newspaper articles from an issue in 1944 which was during World War II. I am amazed at how many newspaper articles there are dedicated to the servicemen and their awards and letters home from prisoner of war camps (that one is coming next). I compare it to today, I have not seen one newspaper article in the 3 different newspapers I read everyday, including a newspaper that covers Fort Campbell, Kentucky, that has articles about our servicemen getting their decorations and awards. Why is that? Is it because this war is considered not popular? I am sure World War II wasn't very popular to the parents, spouses, children, etc. of the men and women that were in that war back then. I guess I am just amazed at the difference, and the fact that there should be no difference. Everyone person in our military today deserves recognition for what he or she is doing. Okay, I will get off my soap box now and get back to posting. Sorry if I stepped on anyone's toes, this was probably not the place for it, forgive me. In Christ, Melissa Barker

I read somewhere that the administration doesn't want the embarrassment of seeing all the dead bodies on TV as in Viet Nam and suppresses news about burials and coffins, etc. Some of the familes of the deceased have complained about this, but it is kept hush-hush. Gerry

Jerree, Gerry With the internet there are many links to find the causalities and you can bet the major news networks will try to embarrass the administration when they can, especially during an election year. I don't think the administration is controlling the news networks if the information is available over the internet. The news networks aren't interested in individuals or their families unless it sells TV time or they feel they can embarrass an administration. Anyway here's a good link to one of the lists. http://icasualties.org/oif/BY_DOD.aspx We didn't have this during the Vietnam War. News isn't interested in facts, only sensationalism. Sorry but I needed to respond to previous posts. Personally I don't think this list is the proper place for these discussions. I did want to post this list link if anyone was interested though. By the way I served 2 tours in Vietnam Jan 68-Aug 69 and am proud to have served my country. Dean Egner Covington, GA -----Original Message----- From: Gerry Parchman [mailto:lib2uus@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 6:29 PM To: TNSTEWAR-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TNSTEWAR] Military Newspaper Articles I read somewhere that the administration doesn't want the embarrassment of seeing all the dead bodies on TV as in Viet Nam and suppresses news about burials and coffins, etc. Some of the familes of the deceased have complained about this, but it is kept hush-hush. Gerry ==== TNSTEWAR Mailing List ==== Stewart Co. Genealogy home: http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnstewar/index.htm ============================== You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/