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The Ninth Amendment's heart goes out to the outstanding movie "Restrepo" Director Time Hetherington and the photographer with him who news organizations now are reporting have been killed in Libya, and of course to their families, loved ones, and all friends and admirers of the brave and important work that they have undertaken so that the people of the world can really see and hear uncensored what is going on in some of the world's most dangerous war zones.
In a post-Vietnam era when governments and their militaries constantly attempt to manage the image of the senseless and horrific unconstitutional conflicts in which they have our countries engaged far from home, it is the members of the press who have the incredible courage to defy their "handlers" to deliver to us the true story of the mindless killing of our own soldiers, civilians, and those that we claim some reason to kill.
Mr. Hetherington's "Restrepo" is an outstanding National Geographic movie in which the movie crew actually spent a full tour with a group of soldiers within a brigade assigned and dropped into a hopeless quagmire, and left out to dry in one of the most dangerous areas of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border regions controlled by the Taliban. As we watch a magnificent and important work such as this we tend to forget that the soldiers we watch who constantly are at risk of coming under lethal fire, and do, that there is a director, cameraman and crew right there with them.
Again, our deepest sympathies and heartfelt sorrow to these two more members of the international press and their families and loved ones, to these brave souls who have sacrificed their lives so that citizens of the world will not be kept in the dark no matter how much the powers-that-be wish that they could. May God rest their souls.
Copyright 2011 Big M and Little L All World Rights Expressly Reserved
The Ninth Amendment's heart goes out to the outstanding movie "Restrepo" Director Time Hetherington and the photographer with him who news organizations now are reporting have been killed in Libya, and of course to their families, loved ones, and all friends and admirers of the brave and important work that they have undertaken so that the people of the world can really see and hear uncensored what is going on in some of the world's most dangerous war zones.
In a post-Vietnam era when governments and their militaries constantly attempt to manage the image of the senseless and horrific unconstitutional conflicts in which they have our countries engaged far from home, it is the members of the press who have the incredible courage to defy their "handlers" to deliver to us the true story of the mindless killing of our own soldiers, civilians, and those that we claim some reason to kill.
Mr. Hetherington's "Restrepo" is an outstanding National Geographic movie in which the movie crew actually spent a full tour with a group of soldiers within a brigade assigned and dropped into a hopeless quagmire, and left out to dry in one of the most dangerous areas of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border regions controlled by the Taliban. As we watch a magnificent and important work such as this we tend to forget that the soldiers we watch who constantly are at risk of coming under lethal fire, and do, that there is a director, cameraman and crew right there with them.
Again, our deepest sympathies and heartfelt sorrow to these two more members of the international press and their families and loved ones, to these brave souls who have sacrificed their lives so that citizens of the world will not be kept in the dark no matter how much the powers-that-be wish that they could. May God rest their souls.
Copyright 2011 Big M and Little L All World Rights Expressly Reserved
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