The New York Times today goes one step further, a large supplement with head and shoulder pictures of each of the 1000 dead USA soldiers killed in Iraq.
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/natio...x_PICTURES.html
One of the psychological turning points in the Vietnam War, termed a cheap psychological trick by pro-war activists, was LIFE Magazine in 1969 publishing in similar fashion the head and shoulder pictures of 242 Americans killed in action in one average WEEK in Vietnam. The article was titled: "One Weeks Dead."
On 27 June, 1969, Life magazine displayed portrait photos of all 242 Americans killed in Vietnam during the previous week, including the 46 killed at 'Hamburger Hill'. The impact of these photos, and some of the faces behind the numbers, stunned Americans and increased anti-war sentiment in the country.
Will something like the New York Times account today have a similar impact?
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Cowperson