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http://billmoyers.com/2014/11/10/remembering-tomas-young-veterans-day/

This Veteran’s Day, Remembering Tomas Young
November 10, 2014
by Karin Kamp


We’ve just heard that Iraq war veteran Tomas Young, one of the first vets to publicly oppose the war, has died at the age of 34.

Young was featured in Body of War, a documentary by Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro that was featured on Bill Moyers Journal in March 2008. The film focused on Tomas, who was shot and paralyzed just days after beginning his tour of duty in Iraq.

Donahue, who visited Young last month at his home in Seattle, said the world had lost a “bright light” and a “talented young man” who was determined to speak out against “this massive blunder that was the Iraq war.”

“He was a political animal and he had a political statement that he wanted to make,” Donahue told BillMoyers.com. “Tomas wanted people to know that this is the drama being played out in houses across the country occupied by thousands of young men and women who fought in the war,” he said, referring to injuries that left Young in need of round-the-clock care.

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http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/11/10/remembering_tomas_young_1979_2014_iraq

Remembering Tomas Young (1979-2014): Iraq War Veteran Turned Antiwar Activist