Mildred's friend's view of war vs. some realities

In Fahrenheit 451, Mildred's friend's husband is in the military, but she doesn't worry about him dying because, as she says, it's always somebody else who dies. Today while driving home from school, I heard this interesting radio interview about a man who keeps track daily of how many American casualties we have in Afghanistan and Iraq. He logs them on a website called icasualties.org His goal seems to be to make Americans think about each soldier we lose.   

Mildred's friend also believed that if her husband were killed, she wouldn't cry but would just marry again. We know from reading Fahrenheit that the people living in their society don't like to feel real emotion because it might be painful.This NPR story explains the strains that the war puts on marines' marriages.