| It may be in part a morale thing, but honestly, it's more that we really don't want it pointed out to us that we are not invincible. The average US troop is an 18-20 year old male, single, and needs to think he is 20 foot tall and bullet-proof in order to accomplish some very difficult things. In a side note, I spent a year at Bagram, and I can tell you that at one point, there were no less than 80 US Flags flying on the base in the various camps, and that was when an order was issued from CFC-A (Our higher HQ) stating that there was to be only one flag flown on Bagram, in front of the main HQ, because we did not want to offend the Afghan locals. That order was rescinded after about a week. Reading this story just brought that to mind. A different idea, the State flag from a deceased Soldiers home of record could be flown at half staff on the day of official announcement. That way it would not be seen in the Combat Zone... just a thought. |