"American Centurion"

The latest political short from the makers of BLUE BALLED and the New York-based TruthThroughAction.org, an organization creating online films and videos that support the Democratic party, its candidates and issues:

The Cost of War

A nice flash presentation of the cost of the war in Iraq:

5th Anniversary of the War in Iraq

Cenk breaks it down by the numbers:

Old Enough Now to Ask How Dad Died at War

From: The New York Times

CamerynLee Orlowski was only 3 when her father, a Marine Corps reservist, was killed in Iraq.
In a grim marker of the longevity of the war, children who were infants or toddlers when they lost a parent in action are growing up. In the process, they are coming to grips with death in new, more mature and at times more painful ways — pondering a parent they barely knew, asking pointed questions about the circumstances of the death and experiencing a kind of delayed grief.

Families and bereavement counselors say that media coverage of the war, dedication ceremonies and even school events — in which most classmates have both parents in attendance — can all heighten yearning for the missing parent. For young children, the flood of prickly feelings and questions often arises just as the surviving parent is moving beyond his or her own intense grief, sometimes with a new spouse or partner in the picture.