Apparently (according to Bing West in his great book "No True Glory") after the battle, a Marine officer came by and saw the writing in the picture above. He instructed a Marine to paint out the "F*ck You" but to leave all the rest there.
One of the Blackwater guys who were killed in Fallujah, and their bodies burned and hung on that bridge, was from my home town
Apparently (according to Bing West in his great book "No True Glory") after the battle, a Marine officer came by and saw the writing in the picture above. He instructed a Marine to paint out the "F*ck You" but to leave all the rest there.