I started by going to the Author's Den website and I found the poem "A Grunt Remembers." I found the last line especially interesting after we talked in class about soldiers' postwar emotional stability and the effects war has on those who live it. It seems like the author is trying to deliver the message that these images of war will be with him forever, and that maybe they should linger a little more our minds as well.
We also talked in class about prostests. Some people saw them as just small, almost meaningless events on campuses like ours that probably wouldn't do any good anyway. In the editorial Songs of Protest, the author talks about several musicians that are speaking out against the Bush administration and the circumstances of the Irag War. If the number of album sales is any indication, these artists seem to be speaking for millions.
This next article, "America's Five Iraq Wars," presents a different perspective, a more government supportive view. I didn't want to be completely one sided.
The Washington Post website had some really interesting articles as well. I especially enjoyed "In a Moment, Lives Get Blown Apart" and the collection of Shadid's War Stories.
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"A Grunt Remembers" is just a heart-breaking piece about the war. I think we all should read it. The Iraqi people in the article become real people, like your friends or neighbors.
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