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Certainly ... but are you telling me, with metaphysical certitude, that it never happens? Along with the guy I mentioned who took the dagger off the German he killed in WWII, some of my high school classmates went to Gulf War I and most certainly did get out of the desert with a few mementoes.

And say that some soldiers did, as the AP story in question stated, go souvenir hunting. It's quite possibly that they were admonished and those souvenirs taken away if their superiors found out about it.

Look, you guys have pretty much convinced me that because of our war with the libs here that you have to be vigilant and consider the possible ramifications of every action, and that playing it straight isn't good enough anymore. It goes against my nature because I figure if you do right and tell the truth and play it straight, that ought to be good enough, but I realize the sad reality today is that it isn't because, again, we're in a war here just like our troops are over there.

And I have never once said that the Boston Globe wasn't a liberally-biased newspaper. It is, horribly. BTW, the columnist I mentioned earlier in the thread whose name escaped me who used to write for them and who made my blood pressure go to about 750/500 every time I read his drivel was David Nyhan.

My mindset in my responses to this thread, again, has been based strictly on my professional judgment whether the use of this photograph and the rewriting of the caption could pass muster.

But let me toss this out ... I did the front page in my newspaper today. I used a photograph of a U.S. soldier posing with his rifle in front of a large mural of Saddam Hussein (with one of his teeth blacked out) while a fellow soldier is snapping a photo of him with a camera. I thought it was a cute image. I mean, you can only run so many photos of people shooting or dead people or POWS or people looting stores or people tearing down Saddam statues or rubble in Baghdad. We've won the war, I thought a little bit of levity wasn't out of line. Does anyone out there think that presenting an image of U.S. soldiers in that fashion WAS out of line or DID paint them in a bad light?