Report from Winter Soldier
Against The Current vol. 134

Brower, Elaine
http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/1488
Date Written:  2008-05-01
Publisher:  Against The Current
Year Published:  2008
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX13405

On Friday, Day 2, testimony began at 9 AM with a panel about the "Rules of Engagement". Speakers from the Army and Marine Corps recounted the atrocities that they not only witnessed but participated in. The stories they were telling about the rules of engagement they learned while training at boot camp, or on a military base "back home," were the same as what I had heard from my son. I broke down sobbing. The photographs they were showing on the five viewing screens of bloodied bodies torn apart by close gunfire, 50-calibre Machine guns, rocket launchers, and every other damn weapon our great military industrial complex has created, were all too familiar to me.

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