clipped from: www.opednews.com   

On Sunday at 10:30 PM, a very moving and disturbing documentary from executive producer James Gandolfini aired on HBO.  This hour long special featured the lives of several  brave and severely wounded U.S.Veterans who had survived attacks while fighting in Iraq.

Regardless of your politics, this documentary demonstrates, once again, the true cost of war.  With 3762 deaths and 27,767 soldiers wounded, we are seeing a new generation of human beings suffering from traumatic brain injury, post traumatic shock syndrome and, according to the documentary, the greatest number of amputees since the Civil War.  Between 71,000 and 78,000 Iraq civilians have also been estimated to have become casualties of the war as well. 

my hopes and beliefs surrounded the fact that we would become more intelligent and that war would be seen for exactly what it is, man’s inhumanity to man, a stupid journey that yields nothing but pain and hurt for those who are involved.