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May. 10th, 2004 11:52 pmWhen I get ready for work, I have KPFA on the radio. I heard this morning's news briefs. The news announcer described a gaggle of US military men who threw down a 14 year old Iraqi boy with a broken arm. He wet himself while they beat him. And I started crying. I'm even starting again a little just writing this.
I've isolated myself from news much more than I was 6 or 7 years ago because I'm having a hard enough time fighting off depression. I cautiously started listening to news again about a year ago. Since KPFA is my station, I hear plenty of reports of the damage being done in Iraq. I kept myself away from links friends had made to the pictures of torture that recently made the headlines.
Yet although I've heard numerous maddening, horrifying and saddening reports from Iraq, this morning's brief was the one that really penetrated. I felt so horrible thinking of a boy so scared that he'd wet himself while being bullied and brutalized by a bunch of mob mentality US military thugs.
I've isolated myself from news much more than I was 6 or 7 years ago because I'm having a hard enough time fighting off depression. I cautiously started listening to news again about a year ago. Since KPFA is my station, I hear plenty of reports of the damage being done in Iraq. I kept myself away from links friends had made to the pictures of torture that recently made the headlines.
Yet although I've heard numerous maddening, horrifying and saddening reports from Iraq, this morning's brief was the one that really penetrated. I felt so horrible thinking of a boy so scared that he'd wet himself while being bullied and brutalized by a bunch of mob mentality US military thugs.
