Checking first link..... Nothing relating to the topic at hand or what is being said... what's the point of this article besides one marine's quote from one situation?
Checking second link...... Wow... good for you, you found one example..... out of how many US soldiers killed so far? My reference was towards the general media attention brought to these fallen soldiers. Perhaps I may have worded myself incorrectly (Edited: Nope... I was very clear in what I was saying) ~ But my above comments were in regards to the level of attention in each country's media that is given for the fallen soldiers, etc.
Checking third link...... What the hell is this supposed to be? A bunch of thumbnail folders of nothing? How about you actually find something?
Speaking of tripe, you haven't even supplied anything or explained anything about what you are trying to talk about..... or moan about.
Tell you what... how about you tell me how often in both the US and the UK the media and government attention brings across the entire nation about how many soldiers were killed, their names, how they died, when they are leaving that country, when they arrive in their home countries and the funerals?
Last I checked, all that happens is a 15 second blurb on the news that 10 or so US soldiers were killed today by such and such an attack/accident.......... and that's it. No names, no explinations on when they will be leaving Iraq/Afghanistan, no media on the news in regards to the funerals.
Tell you what.... how about I find you a "Google" source of what I was talking about so that you know what the hell you're complaining about next time:
Return of the Fallen
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB152/index.htm
"In response to Freedom of Information Act requests and a lawsuit, the Pentagon this week released hundreds of previously secret images of casualties returning to honor guard ceremonies from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and other conflicts, confirming that images of their flag-draped coffins are rightfully part of the public record, despite its earlier insistence that such images should be kept secret."
or how about this one:
Return of U.S. war dead kept solemn, secret
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-12-31-casket-usat_x.htm
"An honor guard removed the aluminum "transfer case" containing the body from the aircraft, as other military officers present to receive the slain servicemember snapped salutes. The honor guard process here at Dover — repeated hundreds of times since the Iraq war began — is dignified and reverent. And it's carried out in secret, off-limits to the media.
This wasn't always the case. Photographs and film footage of caskets coming home from battlefields have been a stark reminder for Americans of the toll of war. During the Vietnam War, the image of caskets arriving at Dover became a staple of the nightly news. The phrase "Dover Test" later came to signify public tolerance, or lack of it, for mounting war casualties.
Since 1991, the media have been banned from covering the arrival of remains at Dover. The air base houses the military's largest mortuary, where bodies are prepared for burial before they are sent to the families' hometowns.
In March, before the Iraq war began, the Pentagon clamped down on similar coverage from military installations around the world, such as Ramstein Air Base in Germany or in Afghanistan. "The prohibition includes ... the movement of remains at any point," the Pentagon guidelines say.
The result is that images of caskets being returned to U.S. soil are not shown to the American public. This policy contrasts with Italy's national display of grief last month when 19 of that country's troops died in an Iraq suicide bombing and received a state funeral through the streets of Rome."
So how about next time before you start to shoot your mouth off about me spewing tripe, that perhaps you learn how to do so yourself, read what's being said and actually supply something useful for once.
K'Thanx'Bye.
