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November 11, 2014

Iraq War Veteran, Activist Tomas Young Dies at 34 
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Iraq War veteran and antiwar activist Tomas Young has died just weeks
before his 35th birthday. In 2004, Young was shot and paralyzed in Iraq.
Last year, 10 years after the Iraq invasion, Young announced his
intention to take his own life due to immense suffering from his
injuries. He wrote a letter to former President George W. Bush and Vice
President Dick Cheney, which he read in a Democracy Now! interview.

Tomas Young: "My day of reckoning is upon me. Yours will come. I hope
you will be put on trial. But mostly I hope, for your sakes, that you
find the moral courage to face what you have done to me and to many,
many others who deserved to live."

Young later decided to live. He died this week at home in Seattle. We
will talk more about Young after headlines with Phil Donahue, who
co-directed a film about him called "Body of War."

 

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