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Wednesday 21 December 2011
Torture's Other Victims: US Soldiers
by: Jason Leopold, Truthout | Video Interview
Journalist Joshua Phillips. (Photo: Lance Page / Truthout
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/truthout>)
The Iraq war isn't over.
For tens of thousands of soldiers returning from the battlefield, it
never will be.
Some of these men and women will turn to alcohol and drugs to ease their
mental injuries; some will end up homeless, unemployed and divorced.
Some will commit suicide. Most will be forgotten.
That will be one of the lasting legacies of the nearly nine-year-long
conflict.
Fortunately, there are journalists like Joshua Phillips
<http://noneofuswerelikethisbefore.com/> who have taken great pains to
preserve the memories of a handful of veterans whose lives have been
ravaged by the war.
Phillips is the author of "None of Us Were Like This Before: American
Soldiers and Torture,"
<http://www.amazon.com/None-Were-Like-This-Before/dp/1844675998/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324406933&sr=8-1> a
harrowing book about the torture of prisoners in Iraq and the deep
psychological scars it left on the members of one battalion who
dispensed pain to their victims.
In this compelling and heartrending on-camera interview, Phillips, who
spent more than five years researching and writing "None of Us Were Like
This Before," discusses his investigation into the 2004 death of Army
Sgt. Adam Gray
<http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/vets/index.html>,
and how it led him to uncover a tragic story about torture's other victims.
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