A Portrait of Fallen Neighbors (Washington Post front page)

[diamond14]

(this is a very BIG two page spread, starting on the Front Page of the WP...includes the PHOTOS and a statement for each troop KILLED for bush* lies....)


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49371-2005Mar19.html

A Portrait of Fallen Neighbors

By DeNeen L. Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 20, 2005; Page A01

Name, home town, age, assignment, base, date of death.

The Department of Defense reports give the facts on the 67 men and three women from Virginia, Maryland or the District who have died in the Iraq war since it began two years ago. What's missing from the reports is how they lived, what they dreamed, why they signed up, how they tried to comfort those at home. Seventy lives: an obituary.

Bradley Arms was a student at the University of Georgia when his reserve unit shipped out. "He was an all-American kid," the headmaster of his old school said. A second-grade class at the independent Christian school had adopted Bradley. When they heard the news, the students took it hard.

His nickname was Salty. When William Watkins III was in high school, he played the role of Pharaoh in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." He could do an Elvis Presley impersonation that brought down the house.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Can't stop crying..........

nominating for greatest.

"Jayton Patterson had survived Fallujah. In three weeks, he would be home. He'd already sent some of his things ahead of him. His wife had bought tickets to the Caribbean to celebrate their second anniversary. When she got back from running an errand, she saw the two Marines standing on the front porch. Her legs refused to hold her up. She collapsed on the lawn."

[diamond14]

2. when you look at the paper copy of today's WP...it's a MASSIVE tragedy....

the GIANT photo of a grieving family at Arlington National Cemetary is shown at that web link....unusual to see this....but a necessary and important slap at bush* WARS....

[NYC]

3. Are they turning?

Is the Washington Post turning?

[OldLeftieLawyer]

4. I cancelled my subscription right after the election

But, given that today is the second anniversary of our invading Iraq, and that an article like that isn't slapped together in a few days, I daresay they're possibly starting to snap out of it.

I might even subscribe again. Maybe.

[Robbien]

7. No. Articles such as this one just provide cover

"See, we are not a right wing rag, we post pictures of the fallen." Tommorrow they will go right on praising Bush and the corporate elite.

[BrklynLiberal]

5. tried to post picture from article..but cannot do it.

[Merope215]

6. That's the saddest thing I've read in a while

Thanks for posting.

[kiwi]

8. Kick

;(

[CC]

9. Heartbreaking and so needless n/t

[The Kicker]

10. Kick for some truth

:kick:

[dw]

11. Pan across the timeline associated with this article...

The Timeline of Deaths

It starts out in 2003. As you scroll across the timeline, it becames so clearly obvious that things are getting worse...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/graphics/localsoldiers.html