MillRatUSMC
12-17-04, 11:50 PM
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=334445&page=1
The first two nights were on PTSD and its effect on those that are expose to war and its stresses.
Tonight was the last part, on reporting war, the guest reporter thinks that we should show war in its entirely, hold nothing back.
That might change the way we view war.
And we wouldn't be in a rush to go to war.
Yet there's times that we have to go to war.
As was the case after 9/11/2001.
We viewed many dying as the planes crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon.
At the Twin Towers of the Trade Center, people were jumping to their deaths.
One point of view they they brought out;
Only those in any war can see the horrors of war.
Times we been reminded that we shouldn't be too graphic on explaining war or what we saw.
Are we than guilty of portraying war as something glamorous?
Wars bring out the worst in some and the best in others.
There was a statement made;
"We learn that Americans are capable of evil just as much as those we're fighting."
That goes along with war is really like.
The human capacity for good or evil knows no boundaries, we capable of both, its the choices that you make under stress that decides.
The word "heroic" was also bounces around with glamorous.
Because they might make war intoxicating, and easier to go to the next war.
After any war, the warriors are discarded because they are no longer needed.
Should we show the wounded and maimed?
That might make some think about rushing out and getting in a war.
What these three shows tried to show was those coming home with wounds unseen...PTSD.
All in all, I found it rather interesting.
If you missed it, the link above covers those shows.
The first two nights were on PTSD and its effect on those that are expose to war and its stresses.
Tonight was the last part, on reporting war, the guest reporter thinks that we should show war in its entirely, hold nothing back.
That might change the way we view war.
And we wouldn't be in a rush to go to war.
Yet there's times that we have to go to war.
As was the case after 9/11/2001.
We viewed many dying as the planes crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon.
At the Twin Towers of the Trade Center, people were jumping to their deaths.
One point of view they they brought out;
Only those in any war can see the horrors of war.
Times we been reminded that we shouldn't be too graphic on explaining war or what we saw.
Are we than guilty of portraying war as something glamorous?
Wars bring out the worst in some and the best in others.
There was a statement made;
"We learn that Americans are capable of evil just as much as those we're fighting."
That goes along with war is really like.
The human capacity for good or evil knows no boundaries, we capable of both, its the choices that you make under stress that decides.
The word "heroic" was also bounces around with glamorous.
Because they might make war intoxicating, and easier to go to the next war.
After any war, the warriors are discarded because they are no longer needed.
Should we show the wounded and maimed?
That might make some think about rushing out and getting in a war.
What these three shows tried to show was those coming home with wounds unseen...PTSD.
All in all, I found it rather interesting.
If you missed it, the link above covers those shows.