CNN's Michael Ware on Iraq: "I am not the same f#&@ing person. I don’t know how to come home."

[kpete]

CNN's Michael Ware on Iraq: "I am not the same f#&@ing person. I don’t know how to come home."

CNN's Michael Ware is easily one of the bravest (and best) journalists in America, so when he tells "Men's Journal" about how radically covering the Iraq War has changed him as a person, we should all take note.


Men's Journal:
http://www.mensjournal.com/cnns-prisoner-of-war

“I am not the same fucking person,” he tells me. “I am not the same person. I don’t know how to come home.”

It’s October, six months after our first meeting, and Michael Ware, 39, is at his girlfriend’s apartment in New York, trying to tell me why after six years he absolutely must start spending less time in Iraq. He’s crying on the other end of the telephone.

“Will I get any better?” he continues. “I honestly don’t know. I can’t see the — right now, I know no other way to live.”

Make sure to read the whole thing. It's truly fascinating.

http://crooksandliars.com/silentpatriot/cnns-michael-ware-iraq-i-am-not-same

[BrklynLiberal]

1. K&R

[tekisui]

2. KNR! We thank you, Mr. Ware. Be well.

[glowing]

3. wow. Think about our service people.. How are they going to come home?

[madokie]

4. With time it'll get better

I sometimes feel like I'm carrying the whole weight of the Vietnam war on my shoulders. Finding DU helped me with that, hopefully Mr. Ware will find peace somehow somewhere. War is never the right thing to do, ever.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Same way all our people came home from Vietnam.

i.e., it's going to be a mess.

[4 t 4]

6. Oh God

that poor guy! I couldn't go any further when i saw the Campbell Brown, No Bias No Bull adds The exact opposite of the truth. Just shoot me.

[Suich]

7. This breaks my heart.

K & R