(kemperr) wrote:

Hello all,
As a veteran, I'm not sure how to feel about the following website,
which sells shirts that are "tributes" or "memorials" listing the
names of Americans killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

http://www.cafeshops.com/wegotsaddam/217266

Do you think this is exploitive commercialism or really a decent
tribute?


Someone, somewhere, will produce a tee-shirt for anything. In that
respect, yes it probably is an example of what could be considered
exploitive commercialism. Not withstanding that fact, the question of
whether it is or isn't really a decent tribute lies in the eyes of the
beholders - those who buy and wear the tee-shirt(s), and those who see
them on the people who have bought and worn them.

Of the websites involved, cafeshops.com seems to be the one of the web
equivalents of a general store, same as many software vendors have
their "orders" processed by/through a site like digital river. The
people at the http://www.gotsaddam.us/ site seem to be the ones
actually doing the stuff [there are items other than tee-shirts], and
they aren't being very informative as to the purpose, whether [as
someone else in this thread suggested] any of the proceeds are going
to veteran's charitable causes, etc.
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