Two journalists died, and one was wounded in Iraq today. A soldier and an iraqi interpreter were also killed in the same attack. Six soldiers were wounded. We know the names and the ages of the journalists, as well as seeing their pictures The soldiers and thei Iraqi interpreter remained nameless and pictureless. The media is already touting the tragedy that this is. It is a tragedy, but what about all the other soldiers who were killed and wounded and die every day there. They don’t feature their pictures on the news reports. They don’t talk about their lives.
Go ahead media, tout your tragedies. You can express sorrow as to how horrible this was to happen to you. The soldiers that die every day there don't get the same treatment. And yet they are no less special than you. Maybe it would help to see soldier’s faces and hear their stories on every one who is killed. Sadly it may grow to be so many that we can’t feel sadness for so many, without being overwhelmed. Perhaps it is good to focus on feeling sad for the media, because their deaths happen so few and far between.
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