Veterans are upset about the April, 21, 2008 cover of Time Magazine. This veteran agrees. It portrays the photo of the flag raising on Iwo Jima. Instead of raising the flag, like the original photo showed, the men are raising a tree…to signify the war on global warming.
Very poor idea.
Very poor taste.
Disgraceful.
The Western Word 
Hey James – Thanks man. -Jack
Allan – You nailed it with the 15,000 trees. -Jack
Your veteran’s angle is fair enough on its own, but as a non-veteran I saw a different problem with it: given Time’s weekly circulation, they willingly killed over 15,000 trees to tell you how important it is to save the environment.
Donald Mates, an Iwo Jima veteran, told the Business & Media Institute on April 17 that using that photograph for that cause was a “disgrace.” “It’s an absolute disgrace,” Mates said. “Whoever did it is going to hell. That’s a mortal sin. God forbid he runs into a Marine that was an Iwo Jima survivor.”…Time managing editor Richard Stengel appeared on MSNBC April 17 and said the United States needed to make a major effort to fight climate change, and that the cover’s purpose was to liken global warming to World War II.… “I think since I’ve been back at the magazine, I have felt that one of the things that’s needed in journalism is that you have to have a point of view about things,” Stengel said. “You can’t always just say ‘on the one hand, on the other’ and you decide. People trust us to make decisions. We’re experts in what we do. So I thought, you know what, if we really feel strongly about something let’s just say so.”…from http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080417171532.aspx___Your so right Jack.