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Sunday, 13 March 05 :: something prophetic.

i've been working on a project with some friends of mine. the project has been around counter military recruitment. the project is about the truth of war.

our media has hidden from us what war looks like. the recruiters have been lying to our young men and women the truth to what could happen to them if they enter the military and get sent to iraq.

mainstream america has not seen the war. if mainstream america had seen what i've been looking at over the last couple of weeks, maybe they would take just a bit of time to let our government know that this is wrong. maybe, just maybe, kerry would have been elected. not that he would be able to stop the horrors, but maybe he wouldn't have been the war president.

war is not pretty. oh goddess no, war is not pretty. and here in america we are hidden from how grotesque it is, here in america we have sent billions of dollars to maim the innocent, the innocent iraqi's and the innocent americans. yes, all the people on both sides of the front lines are innocent.

the last couple of weeks i've been looking at what we've done. at times i disconnect, at others i can't. i have to close my eyes at these photos. i have to hold my breath as the horror passes by on my screen. oh goddess. i am lucky. i get to turn away, close my eyes. i don't have to hear it, or smell it. i get to escape so quickly. how lucky am i? incredibly.

think about those who can't.

i've put some pictures in the extended entry for those who are courageous enough to see.

the caption with this picture says:
Specialist Robert Acosta describing the recurring nightmare of the attack that cost him his hand when his Humvee was attacked.

posted by brooke at March 13, 2005 10:39 PM

comments

I'm not courageous enough to see. But like you, I am so greatful for the ability to turn away, to close my eyes, to immerse myself in other things. It breaks my heart just knowing about the bloodshed and the horrors that make a war. And the way the media ignores it.

posted by: chasmyn at March 14, 2005 01:35 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.