Your writing was really good this week. I'm sorry we did not have time last week to read them all out loud. We'll do that this week. Meanwhile I just had to spotlight Lindsay's.....
A Picture Worth a Thousand Words
What if a picture was worth a thousand words? The picture I just saw from U.S. News and World Report shows two dead Iraqi soldiers lying in a trench with a white flag next to them. What thousand words does this picture tell? The caption said "Dead Iraqi troops in a trench that was overrun by British Marines as they took control of the Al Faw Peninsula".
What was the white flag for!? The white flag is a symbol of surrender.People displaying a white flag should not be fired upon or attacked.
In Iraq the caption could have easily said, "This was murder under a flag of truce. The soldiers were trying to surrender but were killed anyway." In the U.S. the caption might say, "White flag used as bit to draw troops close enought to kill. " Or after a heavy artillery raid and two fellow soldiers were killed and the rest of the men gave up with the white flag. Another possibility could be that they were ready to give up to the first American troops, but they were shelled before they had a chance to even see somone to surrender to.
This war is showing us more pictures than any other war in history , but from whose point of view???? Each picture tells a story ,it's the one taking the picture that starts the story. The other 999 words are from those who see it.