90,000 casualties, but who’s counting?
AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos
11/10/09
Veterans Day arrives tomorrow, and with it, the anticipated harvest of heartbreaking anecdotes driving the press coverage and our ever wandering attention back to less desirable realities: the disfigured but persevering hero, the homeless warrior, the unemployable sergeant, the father or son or daughter who came home a stranger and cannot be reached. Usually, there is nothing more powerful than a personal story to pound home the cost of eight years of war overseas, but I think today there is something even more disturbing to bear. It’s the number 90,591...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Veterans+Day
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=casualties
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelley+B.+Vlahos
by Kelley B. Vlahos
11/10/09
Veterans Day arrives tomorrow, and with it, the anticipated harvest of heartbreaking anecdotes driving the press coverage and our ever wandering attention back to less desirable realities: the disfigured but persevering hero, the homeless warrior, the unemployable sergeant, the father or son or daughter who came home a stranger and cannot be reached. Usually, there is nothing more powerful than a personal story to pound home the cost of eight years of war overseas, but I think today there is something even more disturbing to bear. It’s the number 90,591...
http://tinyurl.com/yb5bjra
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Veterans+Day
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=casualties
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelley+B.+Vlahos
rudkla - 10. Nov, 09:37
