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["Nicholas Roberts, Permaculture.coop" <permaculturecoop@gmail.com>]

well, my prayers are with those brave lads doing their patriotic duty, and I
feel its ours to stop the war and get them home

an interesting movie about a tragic death and its manipulation by the
administration has just been released

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman#Essay_by_Kevin_Tillman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tillman_Story

After Pat’s Birthday
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Posted on Oct 19, 2006 [image: Pat and Kevin Tillman] Courtesy of the
Tillman Family

Pat Tillman (left) and his brother Kevin stand in front of a Chinook
helicopter in Saudi Arabia before their tour of duty as Army Rangers in Iraq
in 2003.

By Kevin Tillman <http://www.truthdig.com/kevin_tillman>

*Editor’s note: Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat in 2002,
and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Pat was killed in
Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Kevin, who was discharged in 2005, has
written a powerful, must-read document.*



It is Pat’s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after.  It
gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the
military.  He spoke about the risks with signing the papers.  How once we
committed, we were at the mercy of the American leadership and the American
people.  How we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition.  How
fighting as a soldier would leave us without a voice… until we got out.

Much has happened since we handed over our voice:


<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman#Essay_by_Kevin_Tillman>

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Tripp Tibbetts <slowfoodguy@yahoo.com>wrote:

> My dear wife has two cousins serving in Afghanistan currently.
>
> And we all agree with your grandfather's perception of the situation.
>
>
>
> The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
> -Chinese proverb
>
>
> --- On Tue, 9/21/10, Nicholas Roberts, Permaculture.coop <
> permaculturecoop@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Nicholas Roberts, Permaculture.coop <permaculturecoop@gmail.com>
> Subject: [permaculture] hands up who has relatives actually serving in a
> military role in Afghanistan ?
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 5:35 AM
>
>
> my grandfather is the oldest veteran alive in his home town, and I have a
> cousin serving with the military, full-time, combat role in Afghanistan now
>
> on ANZAC day, the Australian equivalent of kind of like 4th of July and
> veterans day all in one, the old man gets a phone call from his great
> nephew
> in Afpak
>
> the old man has the courage to tell the young warrior, he supports him as a
> person, but thinks what he is doing in Afghanistan is wrong, he doesn't
> support the war
>
> the Taliban are a product of great game geopolitics generated by Pakistan,
> Saudi Arabia, US, UK and Russia... the USA as hegemon is the main player
> (by
> definition)
>
> the biggest business in Afghanistan now is heroin, most of the worlds now
> comes from there... and oil and gas reserves (and other minerals) are
> online
> for exploitation
>
> apparently there where better conditions in Afghanistan under the Russians
> (for normal, non drug dealing peasants that is) i.e. woman and children
>
> which makes you wonder what kind of crazy world we live
>
> permaculture that
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