During the Viet Nam War reporters were allowed to take photos or videos of dead or dying soldiers. However, by the time that "Desert Storm" happened:
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Also, genocide began to be called "Ethnic Cleansing" and other euphemisms were used to "make warfare more palatable to Americans".
The government had learned during the Viet Nam War that if you show their friends (18 to 26) dying from high school and college that kids that age get really really irate and pissed off at the government. So, they made it illegal to show dead or dying American Soldiers after the Viet Nam War. So, American Soldiers die in private now in profusion without anyone knowing about it mostly instead.
However, now we have ISIS showing literally every beheading, massacre, IED, Bombing live on the Internet for literally anyone to see which is changing the way everything is done worldwide once again.
I wonder how many people will be scarred for life watching videos of beheadings etc. that are really too young worldwide watching these things to cope with it psychologically.
I purposefully don't watch any of this stuff for the same reason I don't watch horror movies. In fact, watching this stuff is much worse than horror movies because it is real people dying. So, there really is no fantasy way to take those images from your mind. I still feel kind of sick when I remember the soldier blowing a prisoners brains out on TV from Viet Nam while we all watched in horror.
I don't need to see anymore real carnage. Viet Nam and friends coming home in boxes cured me of that forever.
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