Lindy, I'm ok with the fact that this one just centered on American dead. If it had tried to add too much to the scope, it would have watered it all down. I think anyone that saw all those American faces and felt profound sadness and loss would also be the type that understood the tremendous loss the Iraqis have suffered. Americans can be a bit slow on the uptake. Maybe you have to hit them with the understanding of 2000 before they can possibly comprehend tens of thousands.

Every needless death saddens me, maybe even more than the majority of Americans since I'm an atheist. There's no rationalization going on in the mind of a non-believer that somehow death is just a point on the journey and that some higher power is going to sort out the good and the evil. Death to me is final with all the issues left unresolved. If a 20 year old soldier is cut down in a war, what did mankind miss out on by the extinguishing of their presence? How many hundreds or thousands of other individuals are going to be affected by that person no longer being among the living? People will swear their sacrifice is worth something because that's what they want to believe but nobody can know that with any certainty. With death there simply isn't any further study to determine how the world was affected. The things that are set in motion or stopped by that action are on a course nobody can affect.

It was a chilling video to me. I have two children that could be a picture someday in some future war that never had to be.