five traumatically wounded veterans
search for a balm from war.
One
young man lost an eye.
One
young man lost a leg.One young man lost his voice.
All
have lost something
more
precious—combat taintsyour soul in large measure.
In
the war on Terror,
you
are asked to dovery violent things to people.
War
is never really over
for
those who fight, orfor those who love them.
The
poignant documentary,
“Not
Yet Begun to Fight”, puts a face to war.
The
mix of wild beauty
and
ugly realityis no accident.
The
film is ultimately
about
the loss of identity,about struggle, and about
the resilience of the human spirit.
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©
2012 Catherine Giordano
Last year on Memorial Day, I wrote a
poem called “In Remembrance. I wasn’t satisfied with it and I wrote it last
Sunday. I was struck by the similarities
in my poem and the news story about the documentary film, “Not Yet Begun to
Fight.” My second stanza is: “ All wars
take a terrible toll/All wars poison the earth/All wars poison the human
soul./Broken minds, broken bodies,
broken lives,/ Soldier or civilian,/No one survives whole."
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