ashton wrote:pacino wrote:why
a: the phrase in unnecessary unless you think that people assume that a group of dozens of random individuals are all adult men unless otherwise specified.
b: the insinuation is that it wouldn't be a tragedy if only men were killed, so you need to specify that it is a tragedy since woman and children also died. It makes you wonder why they bother reporting when an army helicopter crashes, since it's usually only adult men that die and therefore not a tragedy.
Bad example. Those men are in the military and are therefore heroes that died for you.
