Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Tomas Young, Veteran Author of ‘The Last Letter,’ Dies
#1

Tomas Young, Veteran Author of The Last Letter,' Dies at 34


[TABLE="align: right"]
[TR]
[TD]


[/TD]
[TD]

[/TD]
[TD]


[/TD]
[TD]

[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Posted on Nov 10, 2014
[TABLE]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"][Image: TomasYoung300.jpg][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"]Claudia Cuellar[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Iraq War veteran and activist Tomas Young has died, "Democracy Now" is reporting. There is no word as of this posting about the cause of death.
Young was the author of "The Last Letter," a message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, published by Truthdig, in which he stated his intention to die. Young, who was in hospice care at the time and required assistance to live, later changed his mind, saying he wanted to spend more time with his wife.
Chris Hedges wrote about Young and worked with him. The columnist wrote, "Young will die for our sins. He will die for a war that should never have been fought. He will die for the lies of politicians. He will die for war profiteers. He will die for the careers of generals. He will die for a cheerleader press. He will die for a complacent public that made war possible. He bore all this upon his body. He was crucified."
In March 2013, we named Tomas Young our Truthdigger of the Week.
In his seminal work, Young said, "I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americansmy fellow veteranswhose future you stole."
He will be missed.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
Reply


Messages In This Thread
Tomas Young, Veteran Author of ‘The Last Letter,’ Dies - by Peter Lemkin - 11-11-2014, 06:21 AM

Possibly Related Threads…
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Tom Hayden Dies at 76 Peter Lemkin 5 8,776 25-10-2016, 04:23 PM
Last Post: Peter Lemkin
  Whitlam Dies - Government Overthrown in Oz by British-USA Cabal Peter Lemkin 11 15,890 17-10-2015, 05:21 AM
Last Post: Peter Lemkin
  That Letter... David Guyatt 0 3,792 16-03-2015, 01:47 PM
Last Post: David Guyatt
  Abu Ghraib - video of American soldeirs raping young boys in front of their mothers David Guyatt 3 4,889 31-01-2015, 05:04 PM
Last Post: Lauren Johnson
  Maya Angelou Dies at 86 - Great Writer and Freedom Fighter Peter Lemkin 4 4,835 30-05-2014, 08:08 AM
Last Post: Peter Lemkin
  A Locally Important Inventor Of Communist-Era Deception In Czechoslovakia Dies Peter Lemkin 0 2,986 07-03-2014, 09:25 AM
Last Post: Peter Lemkin
  Oldest known Holocaust survivor dies aged 110 Peter Lemkin 1 4,542 25-02-2014, 06:40 AM
Last Post: Peter Lemkin
  Sharon Dies. I shed no tears...... Peter Lemkin 12 7,802 13-01-2014, 07:38 PM
Last Post: Tracy Riddle
  Man Who Sought Truth in Mass Murder Teikoku Ginko Bank Case Dies in Tokyo Magda Hassan 1 3,974 21-10-2013, 07:34 AM
Last Post: Peter Lemkin
  Gore Vidal Dies - Another Great Human Is Gone at 86 Peter Lemkin 14 9,757 06-08-2012, 05:27 AM
Last Post: Peter Lemkin

Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)