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The War Against Ourselves |
Current rating: 7 |
by via ML
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18 Mar 2003
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An Interview with Major Doug Rokke |
From the Yes! website:
Doug Rokke has a PhD in health physics and was originally trained as a forensic scientist. When the Gulf War started, he was assigned to prepare soldiers to respond to nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare, and sent to the Gulf. What he experienced has made him a passionate voice for peace, traveling the country to speak out. The following interview was conducted by the director of the Traprock Peace Center, Sunny Miller, supplemented with questions from YES! editors.
QUESTION: Any viewer who saw the war on television had the impression this was an easy war, fought from a distance and soldiers coming back relatively unharmed. Is this an accurate picture?
ROKKE: At the completion of the Gulf War, when we came back to the United States in the fall of 1991, we had a total casualty count of 760: 294 dead, a little over 400 wounded or ill. But the casualty rate now for Gulf War veterans is approximately 30 percent. Of those stationed in the theater, including after the conflict, 221,000 have been awarded disability, according to a Veterans Affairs (VA) report issued September 10, 2002.
For the complete interview, visit:
http://www.yesmagazine.org/25environmentandhealth/rokke.htm |
See also:
http://www.yesmagazine.org/25environmentandhealth/rokke.htm
http://www.yesmagazine.org/
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The Hero |
by Bye
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Current rating: 5
19 Mar 2003
Modified: 12:36:37 AM |
'Dave died a hero,' the mother said,
And then put the letter down she'd read.
‘The Colonel writes so nicely.' her sorrowful voice broke
and choked. As She stared into the empty space beside her.
‘I am so proud of my brave soldier son.' Then looked down.
Quietly the officer men walked out.
“We did our job, told the poor Lady some lies
That will help her thru nite”,
While he coughed and mumbled, for a moment her eyes
Had shone with pride for her Patriot son so brave protecting the Homeland.
LIES, LIES, DAMN LIES!!!
He thought how 'Dave', incompetent, useless idiot,
Had panicked in that alley while clearing the way
For that oil companies truck that night the bomb
Blew up in Baghdad; how he'd been trying
To get sent home, and how, at last, he did,
In a body bag blown to bits, and no one really cared
Except that lonely woman.
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