One of the people in our office received pictures from a friend in New York via email right after 9/11--like on 9/13. They were taken by the friend, and were shared with the rest of the office. There was a shot of the second plane impacting the tower, and shots of people jumping to their death. I was surprised at the outrage of people in the office when one of the multicultural sensitivity types suggested that those images not be sent out again. The outrage was against the sensitive one, not at the pictures. Many comments such as, "I want to be reminded, I never want to forget what they did." Unfortunately I had a computer crash after I retired and lost those images. Your point is well taken, but the drive by media will never permit any interference with their anti-America limp wrist us down agenda, nor will their handlers in the party.
It sound like you have a good office. People should see these images. If someone is extremely sensitive to violence they should not view the images, but they don't have the right to tell other people what they are allowed to see. The only opinions of that sort that I find reasonable are people whose family members are in such images, but I still think those images should be shown to the general public. The fact that the media will show images for Abu Ghraib and not show images of terror victims leads me to agree your assessment that the media does not want to show the true nature of our enemy. If the media was telling the truth when they claim that they withhold images simply because they are to graphic or out of respect for victims, then they would not show images of the "victims" of alleged abuse by Americans. They have an agenda.