When Johnny Came Marching Home (David Rovics)

[Sydnie]

Run time: 03:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk2ycqbYPjs   Posted on YouTube: October 17, 2006 By YouTube Member: RedCeltic Views on YouTube: 16675   Posted on DU: November 30, 2006 By DU Member: Sydnie Views on DU: 1050

 
The war is coming home. Homeless, PTSD-ruined young people, welcome home to the rough streets of the empire.

[rpannier]

1. Very nice. Thanks for sharing that with everyone.

[IndyOp]

2. VA has treated 20K Iraq vets for PTSD. Backlog: 400,000 cases. Reprehensible.

From Bill Moyers' Message to West Point

There is yet another way the chickenhawks are failing you. In the October issue of the magazine of the California Nurses Association, you can read a long report on “The Battle at Home.” In veterans’ hospitals across the country—and in a growing number of ill-prepared, under-funded psych and primary care clinics as well—the report says that nurses “have witnessed the guilt, rage, emotional numbness, and tormented flashbacks of GIs just back from Iraq.” Yet “a returning vet must wait an average of 165 days for a VA decision on initial disability benefits,” and an appeal can take up to three years. Just in the first quarter of this year, the VA treated 20,638 Iraq veterans for post-traumatic stress disorder, and faces a backlog of 400,000 cases. This is reprehensible.

:grr: :cry: :grr: :cry: :grr: :cry:

[Redstone]

3. Stone me, I'm fucking weeping. I can't watch or listen to that again, but some day

I WILL buy that guy's CD. What a song.

And what a montage.

Stone me. I'm going to have a drink.

Redstone

[Sydnie]

4. ....

:grouphug: Seems you saw what I did the first time I watched it. There just were no words after that.

[Redstone]

5. Thank you for posting it. I commented on it and linked to it here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2837433&mesg_id=2837433

Redstone

[Mika]

6. Stone me too. I'll join you for that drink.

:beer:

What do you call shame mixed with rage?

[Sydnie]

7. right now? an American majority

So many of us find ourselves there these days.

[wundermaus]

8. resolve...

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/ihas/service/patriotic/100010422/100010422.mp3

[seabeyond]

9. every time i see one of these i have a list of people i want to watch it

all the people that cavalierly allow this to continue without a thought. they are the people that wouldn't dare to watch this. oh i cant, will make me sad, break my heart... they cannot support what they do if they would watch this one and the 100's of others i make myself watch. i even have my children watch some. i tell them, this is what we are doing, the least we can do is look at it, know the reality of the war, look at the destruction we as a nation are creating, that is the very least we can do. and like a previous poster, sit quiet moments afterwards.

powerful video. beautiful video in the saddest possible ways. thank you for calling it to my attention thru your other thread

[brer cat]

10. Very powerful. Thanks for sharing. K&R