Editorial 1

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/opinion/15sun2.html

I do not think that a grave injustice is being done by banning press coverage from places like Dover Air Force Base. If I were a soldier who fell in the Middle East (which I just might be if I don’t get into college), I would not want to be remembered and honored by my nation by having a picture of the box that I will be trapped in for the rest of eternity circulated in newspapers. I would much rather my beautiful smiling face be shown where people could gain a little of the individual that I was, not my box that looks just like everybody else’s. To those who think that one cannot grasp how many soldiers make the ultimate sacrifice for our nation without seeing a picture of a few coffins draped with the stars and stripes being brought off of a plane, I think you are wrong. An actual number value of the total lives lost is a thousand times more powerful than pictures of a handful of the coffins being brought back.