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...impact - but won't affect widespread support for the military?s mission. "The U.S. public will care about this because such deaths are rare," he says, "but I don't think it will affect public support for the war one iota." Thompson, like other military analysts, credits the grim realism of the Pentagon's public relations team for keeping the possibility of American deaths in the forefront of everyone's mind - and lessening the blow of this new reality. "Rumsfeld and others have been predicting U.S. deaths since this campaign began," Thompson adds. Sadly, it seems those long-standing predictions...
...grim labor consisted of scooping handfuls of debris into 5-gal. white buckets. Mike picked through body parts and shoes and paperwork, but to him the most disturbing finds were the countless tools stamped F.D.N.Y. He and his Engine 28 colleagues were on a special mission as they dug: to find their six housemates from Ladder 11 who were among the missing...
...anonymous terrorist also got his grim deserts, "because, wherever he is, whether in Belfast or Bethlehem or our own backyard - he has fundamentally changed not just the way we live our lives, but how we view life itself...
Here are some grim, preventable statistics: Last year, 5,700 Americans died waiting for organ transplants, and right now more than 80,000 people are praying for word that a life-saving donor has been located. It?s not that there aren?t enough organs out there to go around - it?s simply that available organs are not being earmarked for donation. They?re being buried or cremated instead...
...Maybe some Americans really are responding to the call to shop for victory: October retail sales figures released earlier this month showed an extraordinary 7% jump over grim September. But most of the spending hike is accounted for by auto sales, which were inflated by those 0% financing deals offered by manufacturers desperate to clear their inventories...