Images behind Lindsay Graham

Cafe Society
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OK, so I’m putting this here because it seems like a stagecraft question. Please move if necessary.

Well, while watching the RNC tonight, on PBS, in between flipping oer to the football game, Lindsay Graham was giving a speach to the RNC, one of the primary points of which was the troop “surge” in Iraq. Behind him was a series of pictures cycling. A minuteman statue, I think from Lexington, an flapping American flag, and then, an image of a military graveyard.

Really, a military graveyard as an inspiring image for talking about our soldiers going to war?

Or, is this a difference in opinion on what is an inspiring image?

FWIW, I’m an Obama supporter.

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Are you saying you wouldn’t be proud to die for your country? Do you think they let just anyone be buried in a military graveyard?

I suppose you’re some weakling pinko who wants to die in his bed, then!
[/my memories of the 20th Century]

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You could consider it inspiring in the sense of being patriotic symbolism. It is patriotic to acknowledge the sacrifices and suffering of those in the military.
Personally, I would consider it better to acknowledge that aspect of war than to gloss over it.