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By Susan Zakin (Author), Bill McKibben (Author), Chris Jordan (Photographer)
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Courtesy of the Tillman Family
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In honor of Memorial Day, Truthdig presents two of the most powerful pieces we’ve featured by two invaluable veteran voices—Kevin Tillman (pictured) and Ron Kovic—who remind us of the brutal human costs of war. (Click here to read Kovic’s article.)
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AP / Reed Saxon
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By Joshua Scheer — In a Truthdig interview, the author of “Born on the Fourth of July” argues that Americans this week have a patriotic and generation-defining duty to speak out against Bush’s proposal to escalate the war in Iraq with more U.S. troops.
“If you love this country, you’re going to step over that line that you’ve not stepped over before. You’re going to find the courage to do that.”
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By Ron Kovic — In this satirical short story from the new anthology “A Fictional History of the United States,” the author of “Born on the Fourth of July” tells of a pair of U.S. Marines giving a presentation at an auditorium full of high school students in 1968.
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AP / Reed Saxon
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By Ron Kovic — The author of “Born on the Fourth of July” recounts his personal journey from a gung-ho U.S. Marine in Vietnam to an outspoken critic of that war, and how that transformation paved the way for his current activism against America’s campaign in Iraq.
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Tyler Hicks / The New York Times
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Finally, an in-depth report on Iraq’s forgotten wounded. | story and slideshow
Also, read Truthdig’s Ron Kovic on his personal journey as a wounded veteran. | report
Posted on Jan 22, 2006
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