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I can't imagine why anyone would want a picture of a splattered body except to offend
someone and gloat over the reaction. A cyber flasher.

Photographs of trash cans full of limbs amputated as a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor
were kept out of the press. It probably was a good idea as such a sight might have
let to mass lyncing of innocent Japanese-Americans.

And prohibitions on some of the worst photos of WTC/Pentagon is wise for a period
of time as well.
BUT...the moral equivalency and radical pacifism crowd needs may need to see these things
(on a limited basis) when they start to scream "no more war" when the USA loses
oh, say, 10 or 20 soldiers on the ground in Afghanistan.

Then they (and the rest of the country) should be reminded what carnage was visited
on over five thousand innocents...and that sacrifices have to be made to prevent it
from happening again.

I'm not for gore. I'm for making sure people just don't forget the reality of what happened.
And that anyone trying to warp the truth is hit in the face with the real image.

I'm not for gore. I'm for making sure people just don't forget the reality of what happened. And that anyone trying to warp the truth is hit in the face with the real image.

That's all I'm about, but some on this thread want to paint me as some morbid freak. I can't even look at most of those images without crying. My intention is not to shove this stuff in everyone's face, but it needs to be recorded somewhere so it doesn't get 'sanitized'. Thanks.

I don't understand how a picture of a trash can full of amputated limbs will help me to remember Pearl Harbor. I doubt I would even connect them. I don't see how a picture of someone's loved one splattered on the ground will make me say "Gosh, that was bad after all". I can see the film of the WTC collapsing and say that. I don't need a string of intestines to add anything to the scene. And I don't understand the necessity or fascination with collecting said images.

When I worked for EMS, there were a group of guys that would drive around listening to scanners. They would show up at bad wrecks and take pictures. I remember them being elated because there was a woman's breast lying on the road. I'm sure they justified the behavior somehow but I don't know how.

I don't need a picture of naked women to convince me the Holocaust was bad.