Dark but revealing

While provocative and not very 'patriotic,' this is what art is meant to do,
I think:
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/05/green-army-men-with.html


Inspired by the crime, misfortune and neglect experienced by a battalion of
soldiers who'd returned from Iraq to Colorado Springs, the Dorothy arts
collective created these molded plastic green army men and called it
"Casualties of War."
In July 2009 Colorado Springs Gazettea published a two-part series entitled
"Casualties of War". The articles focused on a single battalion based at
Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, who since returning from duty in Iraq had
been involved in brawls, beatings, rapes, drunk driving, drug deals,
domestic violence, shootings, stabbings, kidnapping and suicides. Returning
soldiers were committing murder at a rate 20 times greater than other young
American males. A seperate investigation into the high suicide rate among
veterans published in the New York Times in October 2010 revealed that three
times as many California veterans and active service members were dying soon
after returning home than those being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan
combined. We hear little about the personal hell soldiers live through after
returning home.

Johne Cook
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