Tuesday, August 24, 2004
The Suicide of Lance Corporal Jeffrey Lucey
Still think playing soldier is all about guts and glory? Think again! Reading this story felt like getting punched in the gut. I don't think I can summon the will to blog on it beyond this. So, I'm just gonna post a link here.
This Is Rumor Control - The Things He Carried: Atrocities, Investigations and the Suicide of Lance Corporal Jeffrey Lucey
Via Norwegianity
This story saddens me beyond my ability to express it. And yet at the same time it makes me angry. Angry that chickenhawks can hide behind their ideological delusions and send our young men and women off to walk thru the valley of the shadow of death, to borrow a phrase from the ancient King David.
Now perhaps more than ever we need a President who has a frickin' idea of what it's like to have to walk thru that valley. Not a coward who hides behind the skirts of the Secret Service and taunts killers who he knows have no way of coming after him.
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This Is Rumor Control - The Things He Carried: Atrocities, Investigations and the Suicide of Lance Corporal Jeffrey Lucey
Via Norwegianity
This story saddens me beyond my ability to express it. And yet at the same time it makes me angry. Angry that chickenhawks can hide behind their ideological delusions and send our young men and women off to walk thru the valley of the shadow of death, to borrow a phrase from the ancient King David.
Now perhaps more than ever we need a President who has a frickin' idea of what it's like to have to walk thru that valley. Not a coward who hides behind the skirts of the Secret Service and taunts killers who he knows have no way of coming after him.
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