Tag Archives: Iraq War

Tyler Ziegel 1982-2012

Posted on December 30, 2012 by

Iraq war veteran and U.S. Marine Tyler Ziegel, who was wounded in a bomb blast and overcame the most horrific injuries, died Christmas Day after slipping on ice in a parking lot of a local restaurant near his hometown in … Continue reading →

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Return to Sender

Posted on May 24, 2012 by

Forty-five members of a U.S. veteran anti-war group threw off their service medals in a gesture of defiance against US military policy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during a demonstration at the NATO Summit in Chicago, Sunday May … Continue reading →

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Dressing for a revolution

Posted on May 20, 2012 by

Chicago, Nato summit, the city enforces a several mile exclusion zone, leaving protestors with no target but the police. They chase each other in circles, a kind of urban sport. Frustration builds as those on the street can’t help but … Continue reading →

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Remember the Iraq War – Part 3 – The Refugees

Posted on December 18, 2011 by

Somewhere between victory and defeat is dislocation. The Iraq War, like most wars, creates refugees, which is a simple way of saying that millions of people were forced to flee for their lives. They are scattered around the globe, most … Continue reading →

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Remember the Iraq War – Part 2 Purple Hearts

Posted on December 15, 2011 by

In October 2003, I met Sgt. Jeremy Feldbusch. He was an Army Ranger, 24 years old at the time. Three weeks into the war he was wounded in an artillery attack near the Haditha Dam. Metal sliced through his head … Continue reading →

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