OLYMPIA, Wash. — The U.S. Army on Monday apologized for any distress caused by recently published photos of American soldiers posing with dead Afghans, calling their content "disturbing" and "in striking contrast" to the Army's standards and values.
XLIBERALFOOL wrote:
Soldiers become morbid. What are you going to do? This has been going on for a long, long time.
Immediately after cameras came out, some of the first pictures were pornography, only to be followed by cowboys posing with the corpses of outlaws.
My granduncle had pictures of his whole unit posing with dead Japanese soldiers.
My Army recruiter also had the same types of pictures from the first Gulf War. He showed them to me at the recruiter's station.
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Big Deal. Oh well... The Taliban and al Qaeda are not real people anyway.
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — An Oregon school bus driver fired after he refused to remove a Confederate battle flag from his pickup truck has filed a federal lawsuit to get his job back. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Medford on Wednesday against First Student Inc., the school bus contractor that fired Ken Webber earlier this month.