Letters to the Editor
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Second lesson
I am particularly interested about the second lesson:
> Whereas World War II was almost over before
> Americans saw the first picture of a dead soldier,
> today the steady drumbeat of media pessimism and
> television coverage are sapping the West's will.
I cannot speak to actual photography. If you review the propoganda posters being used during WWII, there is no shortage of pictures of drowning sailors or paratroopers hanging lifelessly from trees, with the admonition "Someone Talked!" or "Finish The Job" underneath. The WWII generation might not have been fully aware of all the many ways in which our troops died, but to say that it would have sapped their will to complete the mission is laughable. You worry about that only when the cause in itself does not have sufficient support.