Uncle Johnny, here's an article about a war photographer, Catherine Leroy, who covered the Vietnam War, and follow up with some of the soldiers. She died in 2006 at age 60. This is as powerful as "emailing the war (vince says)"
http://superbadass.net/blog/2005/07/emailing-war-vince-said.html
Send it out to whoever you think might be interested. I know too many people that are still haunted by war (current or previous). Quoting from the article below:
"In these sustaining images, it is the suffering of the combatants alone that speaks with authority."
I have no idea how to live in a world without war, but I would surely love to try. In fact, I am trying but it's not as "easy as it looks." I guess if some can do it perhaps more will follow?
http://web9.popphoto.com/americanphotofeatures/2604/they-were-soldiers-once.html
They Were Soldiers Once
Legendary Photographer Catherine Leroy went searching for the men captured in two of the Vietnam War's most famous images. She found how history, and pictures, change even heroes.
By Jeffrey Elbies
September/October 2005
They Were Soldiers Once
© Catherine Leroy
Vernon Wike, photographed by Catherine Leroy in 2005.
Though the Vietnam War ended 30 years ago, its distant thunder continues to echo. It was perhaps the most intimately photographed war in history, and in those still images the fighting has never ceased. The most powerful of the pictures are the ones that captured the perceived truth of the morally contentious conflict. In these sustaining images, it is the suffering of the combatants alone that speaks with authority.
(more on website)
Read about the photographer, Catherine Leroy: http://stateoftheart.popphoto.com/blog/2007/03/a_tribute_to_ca.html
March 22, 2007 A Tribute to Catherine Leroy  One of the most fascinating photographers I have ever met, Catherine Leroy, will be the topic of discussion at lecture on March 28 at the New School's Tisch Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street in Manhattan. Organized by the Aperture Foundation.
... Leroy was 21 and, as she once told me, "about 90 pounds, with blonde pigtails" when she took it upon herself to cover the Vietnam War in 1966. She became something of a legend, not only for the images she made but for the danger she repeatedly put herself in. She was captured by the North Vietnamese Army during the Tet Offensive in 1968 and nearly killed while covering another battle. In a sense, the war haunted her for the rest of her life.
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