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Bozita

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5. And this LTTE appeared in the NYT print edition two days later...

Reply to Bozita (Original post)

Sun May 27, 2012, 05:40 PM

May 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/opinion/l30iraq.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fLetters

To the Editor:

Your May 28 “In Memoriam” front-page photograph of a young woman prostrate with grief at Arlington National Cemetery before the fresh white gravestone of her fiancé, killed three months ago in Iraq, shows once again with unbearable poignancy the price we are paying for this endless and endlessly futile war. With bare shoulders hunched in grief, she seems herself a sacrificial victim.

What can this war ever gain to salve her anguish, to make her believe that he did not die in vain?

James Heffernan

Hanover, N.H., May 28, 2007

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This photo made the front page of the NYT on Memorial Day a few years back... [View all] Bozita May 2012 OP

It stands. annabanana May 2012 #1

Wrenching... n/t hlthe2b May 2012 #2

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The entire "defense" industry should be nationalized Salviati May 2012 #10

Another photo featured again in the NYT and on CNN today... pinboy3niner May 2012 #3

And this LTTE appeared in the NYT print edition two days later... Bozita May 2012 #5

And this (minus a gut-wrenching photo) Iwillnevergiveup May 2012 #6

Colin Powell once said SCantiGOP May 2012 #7

And yet, he helped lie us into a 100% unnecessary war. beac May 2012 #9

I know he's not popular here SCantiGOP May 2012 #13

He had a chance to stand up and prevent that war and instead he chose his position and career. beac May 2012 #16

You can read Jimmy Regan's story here TomClash May 2012 #8

"Where have all the flowers gone?...." lastlib May 2012 #11

I Remember That... WillyT May 2012 #12

There are no words that can do this photo justice. tallahasseedem May 2012 #14

so what will it be tomorrow? fascisthunter May 2012 #15