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Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 51

image: US soldiers attend a memorial service for a fallen comrade in Iraq. Bronze busts of American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan are starting to appear in towns and villages across the United States where the mounting toll is becoming increasingly unpopular.(AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)

Cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, and European Tribune.

Today’s poem is in anticipation of FratBoy’s speech – image and poem below the fold

Buffalo Bill’s
by e. e. cummings

Buffalo Bill’s
        defunct
               who used to
               ride a watersmooth-silver
                                        stallion
        and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
                                                         Jesus
        he was a handsome man
                             and what i want to know is
        how do you like your blueeyed boy
        Mister Death

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support the Iraqi people
support the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC)
support CARE
support the victims of torture
support the fallen
support the troops
support the troops and the Iraqi people
read `This is what John Kerry did today,’ the diary by lawnorder that prompted this series
read Riverbend’s blog – `Bagdhad Burning’
read Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches
read Today in Iraq
witness every day

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