When I posted this photo on my Flickr page I had no idea it would get so much attention. The host site was referenced in a letter from Gold Star Families for Peace along with some other information. (http://www.newshounds.us/2005/04/26/project_madman_images.php)
America needs to be reminded daily, like we were during the Vietnam war, about the horrors of war. Even though this is a powerful photo it's very different from the experience of having dinner while Walter Cronkite related the day's events in Vietnam, complete with footage of the battles, massacres and killed and injured soldiers being evacuated.
This current war has been sterilized for us. Only a few programs have been produced showing soldiers with missing limbs, reconstructed craniums and artificial eyes. And you have to search the foreign press websites to find photos from the Iraqi perspective although we do get glimpses of their ruined homes and shattered lives.
This is also true of the Palestinian people. Occasionally we get to see Israeli heavy equipment tearing down the house of a terrorist but to find out what life is like for the people, you have to search. And these days can we turn our backs while Israel builds a wall to divide the land? In this age, in these times, the Berlin wall is gone and there are gift shops in the Great Wall of China. And some in the U.S. want to build a wall along the border with Mexico. I doubt they have plans for gift shops.
http://www.newshounds.us/2005/04/26/project_madman_images.php
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