It has emerged that the Department of Veterans Affairs has been issuing tombstones to soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan that some say amount to promotional material for the so-called war on terror. Families of fallen soldiers have received government-furnished headstones engraved with “Operation Enduring Freedom” or “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” The government says the engravings are optional but families have begun coming forward to say they had no choice in the matter. Former Sen. Max Cleland, who lost both legs and an arm in Vietnam and headed the Veterans Administration under President Carter, called the practice “a little bit of glorified advertising.”