On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 17:35:19 GMT, "Kevin Brooks"
wrote:

Maybe because for the most part there are no "rows upon rows of caskets
coming back from Iraq". We are losing on average what, maybe one fatality
per day to hostile fire? Kind of hard to make one or two caskets fill "rows
upon rows". "Rows upon rows"...juts more hysterical and over-sensationalized
claptrap.

What makes you think the bodies are brought back one at a time?
I've seen a recent photo taken at Dover which showed just what I said,
a row of caskets. Maybe not multiple rows, but one row is more than
one or two caskets.

BTW, I don't have an agenda, and I'm not taking a pro or anti-Bush
stand. All I was stating is that DOD does have an existing policy of
not letting caskets of U.S. casualties be photographed by the civilian
media as they enter CONUS. That's a fact, not a supposition.

BTW, I'm a veteran and not given to "hysterical and
over-sensationalized claptrap".

John Hairell )