Fred Reed column

No sooner have I put up a new article on the war, than someone comes along to casually blow me out of the water. I ran into Fred Reed’s newest column while perusing Strike the Root today. A lot of the writing Reed (who fought in Vietnam as a Marine, and later returned to it as a war correspondent) has done on war has been very powerful, but this one is… just read it.

Warning: Contains written imagery that may be disturbing or upsetting. It sure as Hell should be, at any rate.