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George W Bush Killed Tomas Young
George W. Bush has killed again.
On Monday night, Iraq War veteran Tomas Young passed away at his home in Seattle, Washington. He was just 34. A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Young joined the Army just days after 9/11 in a flush of patriotism. Like so many others, he wanted to go get the people responsible for the heinous attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. But instead of being sent to fight Al-Qaeda, Young was sent to fight in Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, against Saddam Hussein, who was an enemy, not an ally, of Al-Qaeda.
Then, on April 4, 2004, five days into Young's tour of Iraq, everything changed. As his convoy made a circuit through Baghdad, it came under attack from one of the many insurgents groups that had popped up since the American invasion turned into an occupation. In the firefight that followed, Young was shot in the neck, paralyzing him from the chest down. He would never walk again.
Many people would give up after such an awful injury, but not Tomas Young. When he got back from Iraq, Young began speaking out against the war and the president who lied us in it. His activism was moving and inspiring, the kind every American who calls themselves a patriot should aspire to. Tomas Young was brave and strong, but sometimes even the brave and strong can't take it anymore.
-Thom
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Daily Take: George W. Bush Killed Tomas Young
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