IS TELEVISION an influence or just a mirror of the way we are? Over the past few years, in different documentaries, three graphic images of war have appeared on our screens. And though they have only lasted a few seconds, each has been enough to shock the senses.
The first was from the Vietnam War, showing a young Vietnamese girl running towards the camera, badly burned from the blast of a napalm bomb. The next was from the Second World War and showed a young Japanese boy, captured by the American marines on the island of Okinawa in the Pacific and shivering with fear as the sits on the floor.
The last came from the Korean War and showed a young child walking up and down, crying with its hands in the air as his mother and father lie dead at its feet.
More than anything else could do, the images of these children depict the horror of war.
But if television was an influence would we not learn from its message?
F G BILLINGTON, East Crescent, Accrington.
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