[Ole Okie]

Michele McNally, New York Times director of photography, concurred, observing: "War kills men, women and children, and we would be remiss if we couldn't in some way show that this is what happens in war . . . It's our responsibility to bear witness to these events."

Bullshit.

Bill Mauldin, a CARTOONIST, for Pete's sake, didn't draw a single American soldier dead in his cartoons if I recall correctly.

But he managed to show the danger, difficulty, heroism and misery of the American soldiers who slogged their way through North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France and Germany.

Mauldin did his witnessing in the medium available to him, and in which he was superbly skilled. He showed the obvious weariness in the eyes of Willie and Joe, the impossibility of keeping dry in a foxhole in the rain, and so on.

If you want a challenge, Michele, go and do likewise. You don't have to show dead bodies.

[glock rocks]

If you want a challenge, Michele, go and do likewise. You don't have to show dead bodies.

Better yet, follow in the footsteps of a truly great journalist - Ernie Pyle.

You don't have the guts to do that, do you, Michele.