- History shows that putting faces and names to war dead — from WWII newspapers to Life magazine’s 1969 spread of 242 fallen soldiers — changes public sentiment about casualty counts.
- This week the Pentagon, at the Trump administration’s direction, cut four deaths from the U.S. wartime KIA total because they occurred during a cease-fire, provoking accusations that officials are “scrubbing” casualties for optics.
- A Marine veteran-author calls the move a disgrace, urging politicians to stop politicizing service members’ deaths and to honor every life lost regardless of how it looks politically.
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