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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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From: Suma	12/19/2005 5:01:17 PM
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I don't know whether or not you caught the special by Brokaw last night on the troops who were from a small town in upstate NY.. Glenn Falls. They did a segment where they started filming these friends who had enlisted into the National Guard together. They were high school,pool hall, beer hall buddies and they never thought that they would be in for a war. They were about 23 when their unit got sent to Iraq... The story was poignant. For one thing the one jokester in the group made a video for his girl friend. Just in the event I don't come back he said as he looked into the camera and told her how much she meant to him. It gives me the goose bumps to write this. They were in an open truck.. Not a metal plated one when the missile struck. The jokester got killed immediately. The one jumped out of the truck and started firing at the area where the firing on them was coming from. He must have had some kills as he is plagued about it now that he is home. One of the buddies who played the guitar lost all the fingers on his left hand. Another had shrapnel in his leg.. Those that survived ended up at Walter Reed and a long intensive recovery. The one soldier stated that many Viet Nam Vets came to see them and they would shed tears together. This broke my heart too. They are all home now. They are going through a terrible RE adjustment. They miss the noise. It's too quiet. They are not able to sleep at night. They have nightmares. All have PTSS..and know it. As they plan what to do with the rest of their lives Brokow interviews them.. They all are solid army and believe in what they were there for . The mother of the young man who died fought for a long time with the government for better protection as those 7 were in an open back truck... No protection at all and this was about the time the information about their not being sufficient protective armor over there was emerging.. One boy is off to Temple.. He was a corpsman and does not ever want to do medicine again. Another wants to start college but the Army will not allow him to do it until he is discharged. They all have to go through a lot of red tape to have their money continue for therapy.. The one who played the guitar has a grotesque looking hand as they tried to reattach a few fingers. One has terrible dents in his forehead and scars all over his shaved head. It was a good film and it did not play politics. It just showed an accurate portrayal of what our young men go through.. and what war is like. Totally depressing..

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