Honoring the war dead

SISKO
I think that's what I'm going to
remember most about this war...
looking through casualty reports.
Sometimes it feels like that's
all I do... stare at the names of
the dead.
(a beat)
When the war started, I used to
read every name... I felt it was
the least I could do to honor
their sacrifice. But lately, all
the names have begun to blur
together...

...

KIRA
That's a lot of names.

SISKO
They're not just names... It's
important we remember that.
(to himself)
We have to remember...

Star Trek commentary three

STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE

"The Siege of AR-558"

Written by
Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler

There are many other observations about war in this episode.

There is more honor in Star Trek than in our current leaders who forbid photos of returning coffins of troops, have never gone to a funeral for the the soldiers they sent to an unmecceary war and who had a machine sign the condolence letters. Or more honor than shown by the conservative war supporters who refuse to air Nightline reading all the names of the dead.

Currently we have 1510 US dead in Iraq and Afghanistan. Estimates of Iraqi civilian casualties range from 16,000 to over 100,000. The approximately 16,000 is compiled only from reports in Western major media and is assuredly an undercount. The over 100,000 is from a study by the British medical journal Lancet. There was a smear of the Lancet study which ignored its methodology discussed here.