Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Listen and weep

A Military Chaplain Grapples with the Toll of War

by Thomas Phillips

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Morning Edition, March 25, 2008 · It is being reported that the Iraq war has claimed at least 4,000 American lives. Commentator Thomas Phillips knows firsthand about this number.

Phillips is a Veterans Affairs chaplain who receives computer notification whenever a member of the American armed forces is killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. He wishes for the day when notifications naming the dead will stop appearing on his computer screen.

[Who is watching the Iraqui dead?]

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