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Originally Posted by SirMoby
Life magazine changed the tide in American support of Vietnam by showing the public what was happening. There has been a ban on such things for this war...
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Very early on in one of our present wars (there's so many) the Pentagon issued an order which prohibited news organizations from showing the flag draped caskets of dead soldiers coming back to this country and being taken off airplanes in ceremony. These visuals apparently had a huge impact during Viet Nam.
I've never figured out if the Pentagon's order has the force of law or what or how they're able to enforce it. Never the less you've never seen a single picture like this on the evening news. All the news operations completely have caved to this and I always thought it was pretty outrageous. If any of them had a nickel's worth of spine I've thought they should have protested this by simply showing stock footage from Viet Nam to represent every dead soldier coming back to our shores. IMHO
