Is it easier to contemplate war when the cost is censored?

(U.S. Air Force - Via Reuters)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/16/AR2009021601480.html

It still boggles my mind that Bush Sr. had the gall to stop images of fallen soldiers' caskets from being disseminated in the media. And that we've allowed it to continue since he left office! While I understand the idea that families who've lost fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters in the war might not relish seeing flag-draped caskets on the front page of their local paper, I think we OWE it to them to print photos like this, to feel that sick pit of unease in our stomachs at the sight of these ultimate sacrifices. What they DON'T deserve is the weight of the situation being glossed over daily by people who just want to go on living their inane daily lives ignorant of the fact that we are in two wars right now. These are the same people who can't bear to turn on the news for fear of being 'bummed out'. Cry me a river. Literally--if some of my fellow countrymen in the U.S. contemplated the true weight and cost of war, instead of writing people off as casualties in the fight for freedom, maybe there would be a little less war. Just a little...

I know it sounds naive, but I can still dream.