Thanks for the correction. I was too angry at the press and didn't check for details on the fifth Marine.
The newswires put out multiple reports, w/ changing headlines throughout the day (which end up as separate threads) - often including more than a single day's casualties - so the perception, if one glances at headlines throughout the day as most "news" consumers do, is of increasing attacks resulting in repeated multiple US deaths - when it's often the same story, over and over.
Is it correct to call Marines "Soldiers" (as in this headline)?
And even one KIA is always, always a tragedy.
Amen...and why I would never post to a mainstream press article exploiting them if given another, more respectiful alternative.
It's correct to refer to Marines as soldiers, as soldiering is their job. They prefer to be described as Marines, capitalized, though when a description such as *In Afghanistan, the Taliban was defeated by soldiers trhat included British, Canadian, Australian and American army units and American Marines.* includes them collectively with other military units, they grudgingly accept the description.
Amen...and why I would never post to a mainstream press article exploiting them if given another, more respectiful alternative.
Just so. But understand that in circumstances such as those now ongoing, it's very easy for a on-the-scene reportr assembled in haste and under press restrictions to appear cursory or less than respectful, when that's not at all the intent of the writer. Additions and rewrites by copy editors at home don't help matters either.