Marine Killed in Combat RPG Photo
by Commentary about recently released photo of dying Marine.
Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard, killed in combat during a Taliban ambush has made international headlines. The photo depicts Lance Corporal Bernard behind a short wall. He was missing both legs below the knees and was bleeding profusely from a head injury.
The side of war that the government does not want you to see, it is the reality of war. It is not glamorous, pretty, or well choreographed. It is chaos, blood, and bone, blended together in a highball glass over ice.
The American public needs to see this face of war. The mainstream media still operates as it did in the nine-teen fifties. This has resulted in American people turning to an uncensored web for information.
On the internet, you can view the photo, and many more that the media refuses to publish. The family members are upset that the photo was published to online vendors. This is understandable, but we have been sanitizing war and black operations in this country for too long.
If the public can see the reality of war, maybe we would not be so quick to allow them to occur. What happened to Lance Corporal Bernard is tragic reminder of a dirty war fought without clear enemy to face.
The platoon he was in came under machine gun fire and rocket propelled grenades. It was an ambush. This is something that the Taliban have years of experience doing. In an ambush situation, chaos runs rampant and it is difficult to pull a unit together in time to effectively counterattack.
Our teenagers are right now playing games on their X-Box that simulate wartime situations. What you cannot simulate is someone screaming for help when there is none coming. You cannot simulate the smell of death, which is blood, fecal matter, and urine.
It is important to publish photos of this nature to give the public perspective. Everyone feels badly for the fallen Marine, but he is not the only one fallen. In fact, August was the deadliest month in Afghanistan since the start of the war.
Freedom of the press, people. There should be no censoring or sanitizing brutally horrific pictures of dead and dying service personnel. The reality of war is a concept that the public in this country has no clue about. The enemy has no qualms about publishing pictures of dead U.S. Servicemen.
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