Strange production.

In that more time, money and energy are spent on honoring the dead than celebrating the living.How on earth is this even possible.We take people How of their dingy habitats and send them into harm's way and then seem shocked dismayed and and surprised when they return to this country in a body bag and are treated like royalty.Meanwhile returning troops coming back from service alive aren't given the time of day.How unusual a story.Could this have been the underlying message when all the flag waving is over and done?