Showing posts with label documentary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label documentary. Show all posts
Katrina - 3 years later
August 29, 2008 is the three year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
via guaranteedhealthcare.org
the evil, the innocent
"In April 2004, twenty-eight-year-old Ryan Alexander deployed to Iraq with the U.S. Army's Stryker Brigade Combat Team. (Alexander had served in the U.S. Marine Corps but was honorably discharged in 2001. When Operation Iraqi Freedom began, he volunteered to work with the SBCT as a civilian. The specifics of his job cannot be disclosed.) Alexander wrote the following poem about a cat he encountered soon after he arrived in Mosul."
Ryan Alexander reads his poem: The Cat
Child, White & Oates
Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers:
Audio Recordings and Transcripts
Dan Barber, David Kamp, Molly O'Neill, Melanie Rehak and Laura Shapiro
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