Belt (LJW), April 18 2004

Text Source

Belt, Mike. "Ottawa friends, family bury son 'made to be a Marine'." Lawrence Journal-World (Lawrence, KS: Lawrence Journal-World; http://www.ljworld.com. April 18 2004): http://www.ljworld.com/section/archive/story/167592.

Message Unit 1 - an example of patriotized history



		core myths: self-defense/nonaggression myth



		unpatriotized history: The US troops who went to Iraq were not fighting for freedom. They were fighting for tyranny in Iraq. The US imposed its own rule on the Iraqis, and killed any Iraqis who dared to resist. The US decided which Iraqis lived and which Iraqis were to be killed, but the US could not be unelected by the Iraqis. They were not fighting for freedom in the US, because Iraq had not been trying to take the freedom of US citizens.



		message (of patriotized history): The US soldier who was killed in Iraq was fighting for freedom.



		patriotic change (of history): attack-response reversal mastery/sovereignty shift



		technique



		text: A photograph of the funeral display for a local US Marine killed in Iraq in the Ottawa University Chapel shows pictures on stands. The one in the foreground is labeled "Freedom isn't free".