Relatives of Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan Speak Out About Jackson

In the Washington Post Sunday, the aunt of a solider killed in Afghanistan on the same day as Michael Jackson decried the lack of TV news coverage for the soldiers as the media went in to overdrive on the Jackson story.

“Mr. Jackson received days of wall-to-wall coverage in the media,” Martha Gillis wrote in the Post. “Where was the coverage of my nephew or the other soldiers who died that week?”

Gillis’ nephew, Lt. Brian Bradshaw was killed after an IED exploded near his vehicle in Kheyl, Afganistan. Bradshaw’s mother, Mary says the nonstop coverage of Jackson’s death has become “totally ridiculous.”

“I can watch the news many nights and there’s no mention of what’s going on in Afghanistan or Iraq and there’s boys dying over there,” Bradshaw told FOXNews.com. “Oh God, I can’t talk.”

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