Public Mourning in Italy
This is the front page of an Italian newspaper, posted at Body & Soul with the following commentary:
"I can't remember ever seeing the face of an American soldier killed in Iraq on the front of a major American paper. Only when it's a local story.
"I'm impressed with a country that considers the death of a soldier to be the most important news of the day.
"There have been 28 Italian deaths in Iraq, 17 of them soldiers. That seems like a small number compared to American deaths, but if we paid this much attention to each of our losses, if our major papers lead with each of our deaths, if we had been forced to look into their eyes every time, so that we had to think about whether this war was worth what they had given up for it, I wonder if we wouldn't be planning to leave in September, too."
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