To illustrate how pacifism has penetrated thinking, just now reporter asked why the bodies were buried at Normandy and not returned home. to have asked that question is the very height of ignorance.
America, the pacifist antiwar American press cringes at the death of every single serviceman. We can no longer fight a war because of the cowardly reaction to death.
The reporter was thinking about the great story of greeting thousands and thousands of returning coffins at deleware or some port. It was a terrible moment in jurnalist history to have asked such a question.
They even had to delay the release of The Sullivans movie during the war, because they were worried about the impact on morale.