This was originally posted at Truthdig and later at HuffPost:
To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
From: Tomas Young
From: Tomas Young
I write this letter on the 10th anniversary
of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this
letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I
write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who
have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and
psychological, have destroyed their lives. I am one of those gravely
wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My
life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.
I write this letter on behalf of husbands
and wives who have lost spouses, on behalf of children who have lost a
parent, on behalf of the fathers and mothers who have lost sons and
daughters and on behalf of those who care for the many thousands of my
fellow veterans who have brain injuries. I write this letter....
You can read the rest of it at Truthdig.
