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Real Clear Numbers: 101,000 U.S. Casualties a Year

by Alexander Cockburn

A friend of mine who's a librarian was recently reviewing job applicants. Asked his qualifications in library skills, one man put “machine gunner.” He was a vet who'd served in Falluja. The library is in a state school here in the United States that, last fall, had 650 such vets enrolled. The young man got the job but soon became irked by what he saw as the trivial preoccupations of his colleagues. He applied for a job at a nearby police department. All over the country, police departments ar ...

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Posted by: michael nola
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Sun Apr 27, 2008 6:26 PM

This September will mark the 40th year since my last combat in Vietnam. Within two years of my return, at age 23, my ears began ringing, and , with only brief interludes of natural sound to enjoy, have been ringing ever since. I am one of the lucky ones. Very simply, war is incredibly loud, concussive and disruptive of the human mind. It is nothing but a human slaughterhouse without the refrigeration. The harm we have done to our servicemen and women and the Iraqi people will be with us, both morally and financially for at least as long as my ears have been ringing.

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