From Dailykos: Pictures the US doesn't want you to see
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I found an article about a visit by Denzel Washington to visit Brook Army Medical Center. It includes a huge number of photographs of soliders who have been injured in Iraq -- recovering, spending time with their families, and just getting by.
WARNING: Some of the pictures are bloody and horrible.
The article, in Spanish, is here. If your reading knowledge of Spanish is limited (like mine), you might want to translate the page to get the gist.
For whatever reason, the US press doesn't generally discuss the story of our soldiers wounded in Iraq, much less depict them visually. Is it simply because some of the pictures are awful to look at, and they're afraid of exposing young children and those of delicate constitution to images that might cause permanent harm -- or is it part of a political agenda? I don't know.
No verbal description of the war ever hit me as hard as this photographic essay. It seems like there has to be some way to get this message across, in a way that the press will find tenable. But how?
Their sacrifices are immense. They've served and given this country their very lives, their bodies, in protection and in love of this great nation. We should never forget. These are our children, our brothers, our sisters, our fathers and our mothers. Their very lives have been inalterably changed by the choices of governments. We, the people must do the wounded from this war justice by putting an end to its destructive cycle.
To get to the article Click Here
I found an article about a visit by Denzel Washington to visit Brook Army Medical Center. It includes a huge number of photographs of soliders who have been injured in Iraq -- recovering, spending time with their families, and just getting by.
WARNING: Some of the pictures are bloody and horrible.
The article, in Spanish, is here. If your reading knowledge of Spanish is limited (like mine), you might want to translate the page to get the gist.
For whatever reason, the US press doesn't generally discuss the story of our soldiers wounded in Iraq, much less depict them visually. Is it simply because some of the pictures are awful to look at, and they're afraid of exposing young children and those of delicate constitution to images that might cause permanent harm -- or is it part of a political agenda? I don't know.
No verbal description of the war ever hit me as hard as this photographic essay. It seems like there has to be some way to get this message across, in a way that the press will find tenable. But how?
Their sacrifices are immense. They've served and given this country their very lives, their bodies, in protection and in love of this great nation. We should never forget. These are our children, our brothers, our sisters, our fathers and our mothers. Their very lives have been inalterably changed by the choices of governments. We, the people must do the wounded from this war justice by putting an end to its destructive cycle.
To get to the article Click Here
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