I'm pretty sure the objection is to it being a "slogan."
Do the headstones of those lost in Vietnam say Operation Chopper, Operation Rolling Thunder, or Fall of Saigon?
In the case cited, could it be possible that the bereaved family didn't realize what their tombstone options were? That the "slogan" was an error in communication?
I assume such errors are corrected?
Practically speaking, these soldiers give their lives for their country, but the body is returned to the family and the family should make the decisions about what wording is on the tombstone.
That such a large number of people here miss the point entirely is downright scary.
And woiyo, if you really think "WW II" is as much a catchphrase as "Project Iraqi Freedom", you should get your head checked.
The point is that some people would want the words on their tombstone, and some wouldn't. It is not up to the government to decide what we each would want to do.
Phoenix32890 wrote:The point is that some people would want the words on their tombstone, and some wouldn't. It is not up to the government to decide what we each would want to do.
exactly. anything beyond name, rank and dates is up to the family.
and to our dittoheads.... ttttthhhhhhhhhhhhhbbbbbbbbbppppppppp !
AND, the point is that the "sample" was being shown with the slogan already on it.
Yes something to describe the location or event they died participating in. Iraq Campaign 2002 or Afganastan or Panamal or Vietnam are not opinions. People died there. Project Iraqi Freedom is an opinion. We should no be putting opinions on people's gravestone's without their (or next of kins) permission. How would you feel if your son's gravestone said "Clinton in 96!" or "Hillary is cool". Facts are great, opinions suck.
LLH
When my father died the government provided a tombstone, which we used as a foot stone. He was a WWII veteran. The stone has his name, and his rank and that was it. Anything else with the exception of the war he was in my family would have found unacceptable. On the government provided stones I have observed in Connecticut, Revolutionary war veterans have the name of their regiment on their stone, French and Indian war veterans have their company (Captan Moffits Company etc.) Civil War veterans have their company and regiment number and name. That should be it,.
On one of the graver markers in Woodlawn cemetary in Carbondale, Illinois, the marker of a civil war casualty from New Hampshire, they note his regiment, and then there is the inscription: "He died far from home." No sh*t Sherlock . . .
Re: Pentagon putting war slogans on gravestones of dead sold
Quote:The Department of Veterans Affairs says it isn't. "The headstone is not a PR purpose. It is to let the country know and the people that visit the cemetery know who served this country and made the country free for us," VA official Steve Muro said.
Nobody who has died in Iraq served to make the country free for us.
McGentrix is right. If the family doesn't like the government commercial, they can rip it out and replace it with "Murdered for George Bush and the oil interests.
Why not!
How's about:
"Bush Re-election casualty"
"And they did BRING it on!!"
"BUSHwacked! Mission Accomplished!"
"No slots available in the Alabama Air Guard"
If people don't want operation Iraqi freedom on the head stone of a loved one then they should have to go out and buy their own, the goverment shouldn't put it on there in the first place.
It takes extra time and money to get the extra engraving and the whole thing goes to waste if it is then just throwen away.
Why are the head stones not engraved with operation rid iraq of WMDs?
