"Our hearts go out to the Virginia Tech families and the entire community. It was a senseless tragedy of unspeakable magnitude and every single victim deserves to be known for the glorious life that was lost so needlessly.
But I can't help but wonder when MSNBC will do something like this for our slain soldiers.
When will CNN, Fox "News" and MSNBC spend all day for two or three days showing the bodies in Iraq; showing the U.S. soldiers in broken pieces in hospitals across the country and in Iraq? When will NBC send their prima donna Brian Williams to pontificate about the dead soldiers coming home in flag draped coffins actually showing one of them? All we're getting from Mr. Williams lately is whining about the Internet, or going to Iraq to help his sagging ratings.
We can't show the coffins because people might get the idea that soldiers are dying one after another after another... ... after another... after another... ..."
When the Iranian hostages arrived back home after the shady machinations of the Reagan Regime, the streets filled with celebrating Americans (or so it seemed). Tears welled-up in the eyes of Vietnam veterans everywhere, thankful for the return of their countrymen, but there was also bitterness in those tears for no one had ever given them a parade, no one had ever thanked them. What they received back home was harassment from police, condemnation from peers, and prospective employees inspecting their arms for tracks because "all you vets are junkies." Then there was the Great National Guilt Trip and all the vets got some kudos, but it really was too little, too late.
I wonder how the Iraq vets feel about the coverage of VaTech murders.
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