[lbo-talk] Nameless & Faceless

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 7:16 PM -0500 4/4/03, W. Kiernan wrote:
>If I feel an urge to get all weepy over this incident, maybe I'll 
>mourn the nameless, faceless dead grunt who was driving the truck 
>when it crashed.
At 1:16 PM -0500 4/5/03, W. Kiernan wrote:
>as Jenny Brown notes in another post, nobody is even bothering to do 
>a corpse-count - I'm going to think a while about all those 
>apolitical eighteen year old Iraqi conscripts who won't see their 
>nineteenth birthdays.

How can we make the deaths -- or rather lost lives -- of the nameless 
and faceless, Iraqis as well as Americans, as vivid as those of 
famous men?  How can we make them _our_ losses?
-- 
Yoshie

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