Any one in or near Charlotte North Carolina are welcome to come and observe and reflect on the True Costs of War!
A number of volunteers were very busy yesterday, 9-28-07, setting up the Memorial to the Fallen of both Iraq and Afganistan, with thoughts also of those who are not counted but their deaths are a direct result of having served in both theaters and experiancing the Hell on Earth man creates.
Thoughts and Sad memories are also embedded in the Memorial of the Tens of Thousands of Innocent Iraqi people with Code Pink setting up the 'Peace Ribbon' some of which carry the names of only a few.
The Arlington South Memorial of 4,000 Crosses is be set up in Charlotte on the first International Day of Non-Violence!
The crosses are being displayed at Independence Park (7th and Hawthorne) in Charlotte on the final weekend in September (28-30). We ask that any in or near Charlotte please stop by and visit the Memorial, especially if you can make it for the dedication ceremony at noon on Saturday Sept. 29.
The human cost of the war is enormous and increasing. This memorial is intended to be a place to mourn, reflect, contemplate, grieve, and meditate. 4,000 hand made crosses / Star of David/ Islam Crescents that honor and acknowledge those who have lost their lives and loved ones in Afghanistan and Iraq. We mourn the loss of all life – Military and Civilian, of Every Nationality!
Please join us, if you can, today, Saturday 9-29-07, or tomorrow, Sunday 9-30-07.
On his new album, "Magic",
Springsteen jumps right into the fray again. In a dramatic new REM-ish anthem called "Last to Die," he sings: "Who'll be the last to die for a mistake/The last to die for a mistake/Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break/Who'll be the last to die for a mistake."
The mistake is clearly the Iraq war. "We don't measure the blood we've drawn anymore," he sings. "We just stack the bodies outside the door."
"Magic", which hits stores Tuesday but is already widely available on the Internet, seems like a party album at first. But it has a dark underside: blood and dead bodies wend their way through the songs.
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This week on NOW 9-28-07
About the Show
[Streaming video of this program will be available online after broadcast]
Bouts of fierce anger, depression, and anxiety that previous generations of soldiers described as "shell shock" or "combat/battle fatigue" now earn a clinical diagnosis: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. But the relatively new medical label doesn't guarantee soldiers will get the care they need. NOW looks at how America's newest crop of returning soldiers is coping with the emotional scars of war, and some new and innovative treatments for them.
In the show, we spent time with Iraq War veteran Michael Zacchea, a Marine lieutenant colonel who trained Iraqi troops and led them in the battle of Fallujah. Haunted by the violence he saw there, Zacchea and other soldiers diagnosed with PTSD now face what could be a lifelong struggle to leave the horrors of war behind and reclaim their once-peaceful lives.
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GAO says Wounded soldiers no better off now, than before WAPO Story
In a new GAO report released today, it shows the Bush administration, the Pentagon , the Army or the Veterans Administration are no closer to HELPING severely WOUNDED veterans that they were before Dana Priest and Anne Hull wrote that out standing story in February 2007 a full 7 months ago.
The story below explains how the administration is claiming it will be another 6-10 months before they get the System they want gets it into gear. Excuse me WHY?
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GAO Report: Walter Reed Problems Have Not Been Fixed
Remember Walter Reed? After the huge scandal last spring, President Bush and the members of Congress promised to improve troops' care. They promised to take action and get our wounded veterans the care they were waiting for. They promised to make things right. Well, that promise has been broken.
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Army Disowns Republicans One Week Too Late
for•ti•tude, n.: Strength of mind that allows one to endure pain or adversity with courage.
The Washington Post reported yesterday that the Army is now saying 15-month deployments without a proper recovery time are "not sustainable." Again, this is exactly what the Webb-Hagel Amendment was all about—that is, until it was torpedoed by Republican al Qaeda supporters in the Senate last week.
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Is 'Funding' Really For Troops?
What Happened To Funding and Oversite For Military/Veteran Care In Previous Congresses?
The run towards a fascist Ideology, for lack of a better more modern name, started many years ago.
Many of us recognized this and have fought ever since to hold it at bay.
We will still manage to do that even in these time, but the future will be bleak, thanks to those we've allowed to take over Our Government, and Do Nothing To Oust Them from their seats of power!!
Navy to Alter Swastika-Shaped Barracks
CORONADO, Calif. (AP) -- The Navy will spend as much as $600,000 to modify a 40-year-old barracks complex that resembles a swastika from the air, a gaffe that went largely unnoticed before satellite images became easily accessible on the Internet.
Trying to remember if these were the barracks I lived in while in Counter Insurgency/S.E.R.E., before my last year In-Country 'Nam, back in '70, don't think so.
But who knows what Nixon was doing at the time, he was Bombing Cambodia, do remember that!
Now as to what's coming: Now Why Didn't Millions, around the World, Think This!!
Iraq PM warns of terrorist threats
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki warned the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday that the continued flow of weapons, suicide bombers and terrorism funding into his country would result in "disastrous consequences" for the region and the world.
BECAUSE WE F**King DID. RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING!!!!!!!!!
And Still See This Future for the coming generations!!!
Iraq PM warns of terrorist threats
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki warned the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday that the continued flow of weapons, suicide bombers and terrorism funding into his country would result in "disastrous consequences" for the region and the world.
BECAUSE WE DID. RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING!!!!!!!!!
6 nukes fly across U.S.; no one notices for 36 hours — how could it happen?
The episode, serious enough to trigger a rare "Bent Spear" nuclear incident report that raced through the chain of command to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and President Bush, provoked new questions inside and outside the Pentagon about the adequacy of U.S. nuclear weapons safeguards while the military's attention and resources are devoted to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The use of, the further developement of, the storage of, Should long ago have been Banned by the international community, with the U.S. leading in their Banning and Destruction!
Instead no one is talking about any of this, while other countries, feeling threatened, especially by the United States, are starting the developement of!
While the U.S. are using Ordinance tipped with Depleted Uranium in the Theaters of Conflict, Iraq and Afganistan, and threatening use to those developing these Weapons of Mass Destruction!
The U.S. is also in the race to develope even more types of ordance that use the Nuclear Warhead!
There use, there storage, there developement should be Banned in this World Community, and the Destruction of those already built should have already been completed, No More Nukes with the U.S. Leading in the Developement of the Laws and Policies to see that that Happens!
If the United States is what it thinks and says it is, A Leader of Democracy, Freedom, Tolerance, Human Rights.............., than it must Lead By The Examples It Professes!
We the people of have allowed our elected leaders, and those in the backround, not elected but very powerful, to control and put forth the opposite in our Policies and Dealings towards others for far too long!
