4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images
Jul 26th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: United StatesIf the conflict in Vietnam was notable for open access given to journalists — too much, many critics said, as the war played out nightly in bloody newscasts — the Iraq war may mark an opposite extreme: after five years and more than 4,000 American combat deaths, searches and interviews turned up fewer than a half-dozen graphic photographs of dead American soldiers.