Hold On to Your Humanity
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/111703D.shtml
by Stan Goff
t r u t h o u t | Letter
Saturday 15 November 2003
An Open Letter to GIs in Iraq
Dear American serviceperson in Iraq,
I am a retired veteran of the army, and my own son is among you, a
paratrooper like I was. The changes that are happening to every one of
you—some more extreme than others—are changes I know very well. So I'm
going to say some things to you straight up in the language to which
you are accustomed.
In 1970, I was assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade, then based in
northern Binh Dinh Province in what was then the Republic of Vietnam.
When I went there, I had my head full of s**t: s**t from the news
media, s**t from movies, s**t about what it supposedly mean to be a
man, and s**t from a lot of my know-nothing neighbors who would tell
you plenty about Vietnam even though they'd never been there, or to
war at all.
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Stan Goff
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