“In 15 years in Washington, I knew many, many reporters and intellectuals and educated people. Almost none had worn boots. So it is. Those who count do not have to go, and do not know anyone who has gone, and don’t interest themselves. There is a price for this, though not one Washington cares about. Across America, in places where you might not expect it—in Legion halls and VFW posts, among those who carry membership cards from the Disabled American Veterans—there are men who hate. They don’t hate America. They hate those who sent them. Talk to the wounded from Iraq in five years.”
Fred Reed
Walking Wounded
Purple Hearts Gallery – The Digital Journalist
The lawyer for Feroz Abbasi, one of four Britons released from Guantanamo Bay, is talking. During his three-year incarceration he was isolated from all human contact and injected repeatedly with an unknown substance that induced psychosis.
“The four Britons who returned yesterday are expected to receive treatment for the physical and mental effects of their ordeal from the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. One of five Britons released from Guantánamo in March 2004 is still receiving treatment from the charity.”