For Cindy Sheehan and the residents of Camp Casey
first image: A young man breaks down during the funeral procession of Jassim Muhyee and his three sons, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq. The four men were kidnapped at gunpoint by unknown gunmen on Thursday and their bodies were found in an open lot Friday.
(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
second image: Family members console each other before the memorial service, for Marines killed in Iraq, at the I-X Center in Brook Park, Ohio, Monday, Aug. 8, 2005.
(AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
Cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing.
images and poem below the fold
from Requiem
by Anna Akhmatova
translated by Yevgeny Bonver
from Epilogue, II
Let them pray for me, like for them I had prayed,
Before my remembrance day, quiet and sad.
And if once, whenever in my native land,
They’d think of the raising up my monument,
I give my permission for such good a feast,
But with one condition – they have to place it
Not near the sea, where I once have been born –
All my warm connections with it had been torn,
Not in the tsar’s garden near that tree-stump, blessed,
Where I am looked for by the doleful shade,
But here, where three hundred long hours I stood for
And where was not opened for me the hard door.
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This diary series is dedicated to all who suffer because of war
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 Bagdhad Burning
read Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches
read Today in Iraq
read this soldier’s blog
witness every day
