Face of War
When I am speaking about war I am always careful to respect soldiers and military veterans of war while condemning a war. Yet at the same time I found veterans some of the most outspoken opponents of war. Veterans have experienced war and all its ugliness and destruction and know the ‘hell’ of war.
Today in the news I heard how the children of Iraq were being born with birth defects in record numbers due to all the poisonous metals, like depleted uranium, the US has used in the massive bombing of that country. This is the evil of war.
Also today a friend in Holland sent me a copy of this talk, Face of War, Chris Hedges the longtime war correspondent gave at a protest sponsored by Veterans for Peace marking the 11th anniversary of the Afghanistan War. This talk tells of the evil of war from a veteran’s viewpoint.
I met Chris Hedges at a Catholic Worker Resistance retreat a few years back. After he got in trouble as a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist at the New York Times he devoted his life to writing and being an activist for peace. You can find the article on the Featured Articles section of this web page.
A warning. if you are sick over our countries Endless Wars this article will not be good for your health. But if you are sick of war this article will help you understand the face of war from the viewpoint of returning soldiers.
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