(Beautifully sad piece, worth another look. - promoted by krazypuppy)
I received this in an email from my friend Leslie Harris who protests with the "Peacemaker of the Year" who cleans DC streets.
WHY I FIGHT FOR PEACE by Cloy Richards USMC, Iraq Veterans Against the War LINK
Because I can't forget no matter how hard I try.
They told us we were taking out advancing Iraqi forces,
But when we went to check out the bodies
they were nothing but women and children
desperately fleeing their homes because
they wanted to get out of the city
before we attacked in the morning.
Because my little brother, who is my job to protect,
decided to join the California National Guard
to get some money for college and
they promised he wouldn't go to Iraq.
instead three months after enlisting
he was sent to Iraq for one year.
Since he has been home for the last six months,
he refuses to talk to anyone, he lives by himself.
the only person he associates with is a friend of his,
the one other man out of his squad of thirteen men
who made it home alive.
He called me a few weeks ago for the first time
And told me he's having nightmares.
I asked what they were about and
He said they're about picking up the pieces
Of his fellow soldiers after a car bomb hit them.
More reasons from this Iraq War Veteran on the flip....
