“Pentagon lifts media ban on coffin photos”

MSNBC is reporting that families will now get to decide if they want the caskets of their relatives killed in the line of duty and draped in flags, to be shown to the media or not. This reverses a move by the Bush administration in 1991 which banned photos or videos of war dead.

I rarely stick my head out in political issues, but I feel very strongly about this issue, and I am so glad to see that we as a people will be exposed to harsh realities of war. The fact that we have been sanitized from it, I feel, is wrong.

If we want to fight a war, we need to be prepared to deal with the realities and truth of it, and if the consequences of it is death, we need to accept it. Hiding it, while thousands of families suffer, is like denying them their ultimate sacrifice.