War is hell indeed albeit very necessary at times
They showed dead bodies. Cause of death was usually scalding.
Do you happen to remember the pictures of naked, imaciated bodies piled like cord wood outside of ovens at concentration camps? What about a bloody, burned Chinese todler sitting in the remains of a bombed Shanghai train station in 1937.
Stark reality galvanizes people. Death should not be trivialized and the dead and injured must be treated with dignity. However, hiding reality does not always equal giving them dignity. Reality, even ugly reality, has its place and adults should take a good look once in a while. The dead also deserve the dignity of having the crimes against them exposed.
a Pulitzer winner but wasn't that Nanking?
i read the journalists rescued the baby too
War is hell indeed albeit very necessary at times