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With Israel and Hezbollah currently embroiled in some ugliness, I am finding it difficult to agree with either side. Israel is destroying Lebanon's economy, and Hezbollah kidnapped some soldiers in an attempt to get Palestinian and Lebanese detainees released. Even if this doesn't turn into WWIII, this will just provide justification for seventy years of fighting. I fully expect these people to still be at it in 2106.

I've always had a certain fascination with obituaries, it's not a macabre interest, I am pretty much just interested in how people lived their lives, however short, and however long. Most western newspapers focus on Israel's own death toll and the details of each death, and gloss over the deaths in Lebanon, and they've long been glossing over the deaths in Iraq. Perhaps because there are so many more. But we can try harder.

I can understand not giving the terrorists a platform, but I would like for American newspapers to place obituaries of those killed in bombings in their papers; sectarian, insurgent or otherwise. Obituaries may be too big, but at least give them the victims the dignity of a name and an age. Make the American public realize these people are more than just statistics.