DN! has a sobering report up this morning on the side of the war story you don’t hear from the Rah!Rah! mainstream media.  Keep the tissues nearby, because unless you have a hard heart, the tears will flow.

Tomas Young, activist against the Iraq War, dies on the eve of Veterans’ Day.

Phil Donahue and his role in getting Tomas’ story told.  The side of war you don’t see or hear.  As Donahue said, this has been the most “sanitized” war on record.  With the Vietnam war, the war was right in our faces every night with the then respectable media.  Communications folks talk about the war as being lost because of the horror of war brought into people’s homes every night.  There was no denying how devastating it was.

Now we have Tomas Young, who went in thinking he was fighting for his country, when he was fighting for oil.  He became paralyzed….for oil.

Lastly, StoryCorps has an animated video of a soldier and the children he met.  He could see their humanity and how utterly devastating war is when his little friend suffered terrible losses.  How could he explain this to the child?

I wonder what my Dad went through in his service.  He never talked about it.

And again, I want to state that I am not down on veterans…but I seek a world without war.

**edited to fix link.