A Thousand Dreams

[WilliamPitt]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091204X.shtml

A Thousand Dreams
By John Cory
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Saturday 11 September 2004

Where do soldiers go when they die?
Do they sail away across a patriot sky?
Or drift on the breeze of the lie
That killed them?

It is coming, and in Bush’s words, “We’ve turned the corner.”

The numbers and names of the dead has reached 1,000 as the wounded, climbs above 7,000. At least those are the official numbers. This administration has always had a problem with honest numbers.

But numbers are numb. Numbers are faceless.

On August 10th, Lt. Commander Scott Zellem was killed in Iraq. He was the pilot who flew Bush onto the aircraft carrier for that banner moment: Mission Accomplished.

Sgt. Ryan Campbell was killed back in April 2004. His tour would have been over on April 25th but was involuntarily extended.

Go to thememoryhole.org and browse the photos of the wounded and maimed, now in recovery and learning to cope with the loss of limbs and eyes and brain trauma. Peer into the faces of Robert Acosta and Gary Boggs, PFC. Reed Rosenkranz, and Spec. Todd Rauch, Sgt. Gary Yoakam, or Spec. Edward Platt or Kris Atherton.

Find the faces of the dead and wounded, study them carefully and intensely, and what you see is the face of America, the face of faith and dreams, of love for family and home.

If you look closely, you’ll also see the face of trust betrayed.

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[acmavm]

1. What is there to say? It's a great article. So good in fact, that I'm

just sitting here feeling devastated and helpless.

I didn't know the poor guy that piloted the Unelected Fraud was killed. I wonder what his last thought was before he died. That he was used by bush* not only during a photo op, but that he was dying because bush* sent him into a war under false pretenses? It just kills me that bush* tried to make the world think that HE piloted that plane that day. And it just enrages me that the poor guy who actually did the flying didn't get the respect he deserved from his Commander in Chief who never did his duty when he was called, but had no qualms about sending guys like him into a war zone under false pretenses. Did he know that the reasons from war went from 'Saddam has WMDs' to 'Saddam is trying to rebuild his nuclear and biological weapons programs' to 'Saddam was interested in building his nuclear (never had 'em) and biological weapons program'? I wonder if he thought it was worth it?

[DaveyAnderson]

4. Very very moving....I almost shit myself

[Kathy in Cambridge]

5. Given your track record, that probably happens several times a day

have you considered adult diapers? Or have you never potty trained?

[stellanoir]

2. someone sent me a link

to this earlier. So moving. It deserves a kick or three.

[WilliamPitt]

3. .

[LincolnMcGrath]

6. You rule

:loveya:

[proud patriot]

7. :-(

:cry:

[Skittles]

8. faces of trust betrayed

indeed

[Kathy in Cambridge]

9. Sad article, I'm so pissed at Bush

:grr: :cry:

[Wind Dancer]

10. Too sad for words!

:cry: :cry: :cry:

[bigtree]

11. "Thousands of dreams swirl in painful confusion."

". . . the face of trust betrayed."
:kick:

[Andromeda]

12. This brought tears to my eyes...

because faces of the dead and wounded aren't numbers and neither are the families who have to live without them or live with their pain and agony for the rest of their days.

The trust was real and so was the betrayal but who will pay?

Hope it's Bush.

[Hekate]

13. Another kick

:kick:

We've all lost so much;
some so much more
than others

Hekate

[Wind Dancer]

14. Kick

[nostamj]

15. 7000 or 27000 ?

this morning on McLaughlin they showed graphics of dead and wounded numbers in Iraq. they had 27000 as wounded.

mistake?