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Families of fallen show grave misgivings
Families of defunctionalised military resources have requested the Pentagon to exercise "a little extra consideration" in its choice of operation names.
The names of military operations in which their familial assets were detrimented are inscribed, at minimal extra charge, on the government-issued headstones, along with name, rank, branch of military service, date of last pay drawn and one of a choice of ten patriotic inscriptions.
The headstones used to include the date of detrimentation, but this was changed during the second to last phase of the third pushing-back of the scattered and nearly-defeated Middle East insurgency several years ago.
There were scattered protests from some families when the detrimentation date was detrimented from the headstones, but the majority were persuaded that upbeatness and a reminder of market freedoms made the new system a more apt one for the times.
However, families of military resources who volunteered under the Moral Fibre Act have expressed concern at the way in which their casualties have been packaged for posterity.
The families stress that they are not asking for the operation names to be left off the headstones, but only for the Pentagon to choose names that are "more dignified and fitting to a lost loved one, rather than to some TV soundbite."
"These military operations seem to be named so as to get public support for military action," said the father of one military resource lost during the US Marines' recent Operation Avuncular Aside, when 12,000 insurgents were splatterised with minimal civilian casualties.
"It seems a little bit like it might be connected to politics, and no one who's lost a relative in war would want to think it had anything to do with anything like that."
Families of defunctionalised military resources have requested the Pentagon to exercise "a little extra consideration" in its choice of operation names.
The names of military operations in which their familial assets were detrimented are inscribed, at minimal extra charge, on the government-issued headstones, along with name, rank, branch of military service, date of last pay drawn and one of a choice of ten patriotic inscriptions.
The headstones used to include the date of detrimentation, but this was changed during the second to last phase of the third pushing-back of the scattered and nearly-defeated Middle East insurgency several years ago.
There were scattered protests from some families when the detrimentation date was detrimented from the headstones, but the majority were persuaded that upbeatness and a reminder of market freedoms made the new system a more apt one for the times.
However, families of military resources who volunteered under the Moral Fibre Act have expressed concern at the way in which their casualties have been packaged for posterity.
The families stress that they are not asking for the operation names to be left off the headstones, but only for the Pentagon to choose names that are "more dignified and fitting to a lost loved one, rather than to some TV soundbite."
"These military operations seem to be named so as to get public support for military action," said the father of one military resource lost during the US Marines' recent Operation Avuncular Aside, when 12,000 insurgents were splatterised with minimal civilian casualties.
"It seems a little bit like it might be connected to politics, and no one who's lost a relative in war would want to think it had anything to do with anything like that."
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