"The extremely restricted space within which trench warfare was fought
simultaneously ensured that Great War soldiers would live with the
corpses of their friends and that British civilians would not see dead
soldiers. Soldiers buried their dead and then encountered them again
("Shells disinter the bodies, then reinter them . . .", but British
policy dictated that the civilian bereaved would never have anything to
bury. Soldiers inhabited a world of corpses; British civilians
experienced the death of their soldiers as corpselessness. In England,
then, World War I created two markedly different categories of
experience, a discrepancy that complicated the gap that always separates
language from experience. While verbal descriptions of war can never
wholly convey the physical experience of war, the discontinuity between
the experience of soldiers and of civilians--between death experienced
as corpses and death experienced as corpselessness--meant that civilians
were in a position to speak about death and to speak about soldiers
without ever seeing dead soldiers."

Postcards From the Trenches, Negotiating the Space between Modernism and
the First World War, Allyson Booth

Like never seeing dead cows in our McDonald's HAPPY MEAL.

Then think what we get to see on CNN.
Then go over and check out http://www.aljazeera.net

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