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Grim Milestones in War's Headstones

Akicita4 Wrote: May 20, 2010 1:14 PM
Thank you for writing this Debra. It is so important to inform or remind as many Americans as possible that while they are going about their daily lives in comparative safety, there are thousands in uniform going in harm's way EVERY DAY in extremely harsh conditions. Our men and women in the armed forces have been and still are doing well an incredibly difficult job trying to keep their homeland safe from the kinds of depredations they see being committed by radical terrorists in their theater of operations. This they do in spite of having to adhere to ridiculous rules of engagement (ROE) that lead directly to avoidable deaths and injuries, plus a probability their own government will prosecute and imprison them as war criminals for the...

How is it that The New York Times reported that that the toll of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan reached the "grim milestone" of 1,000 Tuesday, but my newspaper, The Chronicle, had not bothered to report the story?

This column began as an effort to redress what I considered to be an unconscionable omission. As it turns out, it's more complicated.

Even before the Iraq War toll exceeded 1,000 deaths in September 2004, there was a media build-up to the milestone. The Chronicle brought together family members from Northern California whose loved ones were among the dead for front-page coverage....

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