Through the Years ....: As a military family , I take exception to use of 'wasted lives' - Barack Obama or anyone else

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

As a military family , I take exception to use of 'wasted lives' - Barack Obama or anyone else

3 comments:

Lica said...: I have found myself using those same words - "wasted lives" - in reference to news reports reporting death tolls. Would I say the same thing if the most recent death toll included my cousin or brother-in-law? Probably not. I know too much about them to consider their live wasted. So when I say it in reference the thousands that are not members of my family, am I disrespecting their memory, or more importantly their life? I don't know.

I do know that their potential has been wasted, their dreams wasted, the dreams of their families wasted. Was their life wasted? Certainly not.

Yeah, maybe "wasted lives" is not the right thought.; February 13, 2007 at 11:11 AM
Arthur Ruger said...: "half the soldiers listed on that [VietNam] wall died after our leaders knew it could not be won."
Iraq vet Representative Patrick Murphy, of Pennsylvania,; February 14, 2007 at 7:00 AM
Anonymous said...: I would think he meant that the politicians wasted the lives of the soldiers, not that the soldiers led wasted lives. But I agree, better words could have been used.; March 1, 2007 at 11:23 AM

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