inFORM ** Victims' families tell their stories following Nato airstrike in Afghanistan
the realities of war -‘I took some flesh home and called it my son.’ The Guardian interviews 11 villagers
When I worked with veterans I was struck most by two things:
• the immense decency and desire to contribute positively present in nearly all soldiers (now veterans) that I met and
• the way war means so much associated trauma to the ‘involved and uninvolved’ of a kind and breadth not much understood nor portrayed in movies, war fiction or the media.
Here is an example of the media telling the story more fully.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/11/afghanistan-airstrike-victims-stories
