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To: Ron who wrote (9652)	4/25/2004 4:14:07 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

The only reason for keeping the coffins secret is political. One can understand the politics, but it is hard to understand the people who want to make up new reasons for why it's happening- it's almost as bad as the folks who changed the reasons for the Iraq war every week, until they got to one that couldn't be proved wrong, because it was based on "idealism", instead of fake data. In WWII moms war son in service pins, and the whole town knew if you lost a child in the war. It wasn't a secret. Keeping the deaths secret actually makes it look like the men and women who lost their lives aren't worth acknowledging. That's a sad message to send. It's ok for the reasons for the war to be a fake, but let's not acknowledge the real deaths of Americans sons and daughters? Who thought up that rather bankrupt policy? No matter how we may feel about the war, the deaths of the service people who fought it deserve to be acknowledged by everyone, and if the real deaths of our own people change people's minds about the war so be it- war shouldn't be fought for fake reasons, nor should it be prolonged by hiding reality.