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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (9330)	1/11/2002 11:44:49 AM
From: Angler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Dear JTT: I said "Gentility and Kindness" with tongue in cheek. I come from an era when people appeared sterner outwardly but killings, rapes and mass murders were not a monthly occurrence inside of a civilized "caring" society. Today we are all caring, but then we didn't give a s--t so the new history proclaims; but mostly the crooks died because we executed them on the spot or later. It is hard to get over the irony of all the publicity and media pitching over losses of a handful of military people overseas (some by friendly fire and other accidents)WHEN here at home we lose more than that in one day due to violence (not counting auto accidents). I'm not trying to demean the loss of military personnel but comparing only how such things are viewed today as opposed to the combat losses in WWII, Korea and even Vietnam. Remembering friends and acquaintances snuffed out and mourned without fanfare in private during those "conflicts" (no overall media sensitivity), it is hard for me to understand how we have come to this changed viewpoint so quickly. 50,000 were our casualties in the Korean war now labeled the "forgotten war." The Oklahoma bombing killed more here than we have suffered in a two years overseas of late. That there is almost a media celebration of death by violence seems to be misplaced. Angler