The Maimed - NYTimes

[Cassandra]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/18/magazine/18ISRAEL.html
"Those images may tell us a great deal about faith or about politics, but they tell us nothing about what it is to be maimed. Perhaps that is to be expected: it is easy to romanticize death and almost impossible to make an ideological fable out of having one's legs blown off or one's face burned. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori: sweet it is to die for one's country. Those words have adorned countless war memorials in Europe, Canada and the United States. But one can't make a poem out of walking on prostheses for the rest of one's life or becoming aphasic -- not a patriotic poem, anyway."

This is actually a photo essay, and an important one.

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The photographs are harrowing; just to warn you.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. The NYT also compared John Edwards to a "used car salesman"...

so I'm suprised that they would show this.

[Cassandra]

2. What does one...

have to do with the other?

[pansypoo53219]

4. if there IS a used-car salesman

it's BUSH, not edwards. when he says we are safer now and that sadaam is a bad man, i SWEAR he is saying i need to get the undercoating.

[madrchsod]

3. no one cares about these people but their

families and friends. neither side`s leaders are willing to stop this carnage they will upon the innocents..they have no humanity.these children will live with their horror long after these two leaders are dead

[Forkboy]

6. Sadly that is so true

:-(

[drdon326]

5. Great article....

The first casualty of war is the truth.

The second casualty of war are the innocents.