Articles by Nadya Williams
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CARRYING A BACKPACK OF SORROW … SOLDIERS ON THE EDGE OF SUICIDE
Nadya Williams - Truthout,
5 Apr 2010
More of our young soldiers are now killing themselves than are being killed in our wars in the Middle East. The sad statistics are at the end of this article, but the following poem by a 24-year-old former Marine, who slashed his wrists twice after four years of duty and two tours of combat, tells […]
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Nadya Williams - Truthout,
28 Feb 2010
Stand up and repeat these words in marching cadence: "I went down to the marketWhere all the people shopI pulled out my macheteAnd I began to chop I went down to the parkWhere all the children playI took out my machine gunAnd I began to spray"This is a chant our young are taught to march […]
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