Marking War Milestones
This week Radio Boston is going on location. We broadcast from Athol’s Memorial Town Hall.
Residents from the town of Orange participate in the tolling of the town bell for 4,000 seconds to commemorate Americans killed in Iraq.
We’re talking with veterans from north central Massachusetts about their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan and what they think now that they’re home.
Listen to the full show:
Audio for http://www.bu.edu/wbur/storage/2008/04/radioboston_0404.mp3
What does the war mean for small towns?
With a Presidential Election on the horizon and economic problems bearing down on the nation have Americans lost interest in what’s happening in Iraq?
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Now that the ground has thawed let’s go on an archaeological dig. What are some of the latest big local discoveries? What do historical artifacts teach us about our past?
We got this email from Mike:
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“Name: Mike
Subject: Iraq Veterans in MA
Message: Dear Radio Boston. It must be difficult to get the tone justright on a story about Iraq veterans. A little too far this way and it sounds like you’re denigrating the military; a little too far that way and it sounds like glorification of war and perpetuation of the ghastly fake-romantic notion of young people “going to war.”
I wish you’d been more skeptical of the whole enterprise. I can’t think of anything less romantic than ruining a young person’s life for the benefit of a corrupt president and the oil companies he serves. Your program sounded, to me, a little too heavy on hushed reverence for the whole ugly debacle.
I’d have rather heard how snatching the lives and spirits of young people for an unnecessary invasion and occupation (and definitely not a “war”) devastates towns, congregations, families, and individuals.
Just the truth, without the romance.
Mike”