In the news today:
“DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. – The Pentagon’s 18-year ban on media covering the return of fallen U.S. service members ended with a solemn ceremony for the arrival of a flag-draped casket of an airman felled in Afghanistan.
After receiving permission from family members, the military opened Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to the media Sunday night for the return of the body of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers of Hopewell, Va.”
My Comment
Very interesting to me that they lift this media ban just now. After 18 years (since Gulf War I).
Why? Maybe it’s done for the highest motives.
Maybe, just maybe, it’s done to distract from coverage of worker unrest and channel emotions elsewhere.
I’m glad the ban is lifted. But let’s hope the media is savvy enough not to disconnect these two things: the war dead and the working wounded.
It’s the same war. It’s state machinery in the service of a small group of financiers attacking free markets and free society.