More News about War

Article about news reporter killed: http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_id=11893

This article is about a news reporter from the UK being shot by American's in Iraq. He was killed on March 22, 2003, and the article has just now confirmed his death and cause. The article says he was killed in the first few months of the "US-led invasion" which is interesting.. and the article mentions the term "US-led invasion" many more times. It is interesting to hear the term "US-led invasion" becauase in our news it is never worded in that fashion. The article goes on to say that his death was unlawful and a war crime.


http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=11898
the other version of the article I found on CNN.COM last night

War in the News

Here are a few articles I found tonight:

Four U.S. Soldiers
Iraq reality check
Iraqi Violence

War and Terrorism

My roommates and I just watched the movie, Munich. As we watched it, we were talking about this english class and our blogs, and how it could relate to a blog posting. The movie is about terrorism, and the attacks in Munich, Germany in the 70's during the Olympic games. There were 11 Olympians that died on the terrorist attack, but in the next few months, many more died. People hire people to find things out- and money is a big part of who helps who-- it is a big crazy circle, and kind of hard to explain. If you have not seen the movie, we reccomend it. It is almost three hours long, but you learn quite a bit about the lives people live and what people go through in different parts of the world.

Authors Den

I looked at the "Authors Den" Website, which showed quite a few more poems about war. I liked the "A Date To Remember" poem because it made you think about the wars in our past and how they effect the war today. The poem talks about "the war to end all wars" but how it didn't really end it, and it questions if war will ever end. I think that question is a good one--- and the answer should be obvious, but I guess some people do not agree otherwise it would have stopped by now.

Poets Against War

I looked at the "Poets Against War" website, and found quite a few interesting poems about the protesting of war through the thoughts of poems. War Zone, was one that stuck out to me because the author, Camilla Flintermann, is right-- Children will again be victims. This poem discusses how children see things they should not be exposed to, and I believe this is true. Reality is something that needs to be taught to children, but I do not think that showing them certain parts of the war is the right way to show them. You see enough things as an adult that you don't want to see, so why ruin childrens minds?

War Poetry

I looked at the poem, Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell, and I realized that it was similar to the Mark Twain poem, The War Prayer, for the fact that poems about war are very truthful, honest, and to the point. Also, I have found that these poems contain a large amount of imagery that has you think of things you have never seen and never thought of before. I do not like the fact that these poems are sad, but they are real, so after reading them you think about alot of things that are not usually on your mind. The Shooting an Elephant Poem is interesting because he writes it like a story and it has so many details in it. Orwell tells you exactlly what was going on, and what he was thinking. Part of the poem, "But at that moment I glanced round at the crowd that had followed me. It was an immense crowd, two thousand at the least and growing every minute. " is an example of that.

In my English 3070 class right now, we have are doing some things on poetry and two of the books we are using in the class are called, "Poems of Protest" and "Cry Out: Poets Protest the War". The books are filled with poems by famous authors about their opinions and views on war.