The Hell of War Returns Home.
Toy soldiers are played with by small boys and collected by big boys.
The first G.I. Joe toy was introduced at the International Toy Fair in New York, USA on Feb. 9, 1964. Today he’s leaner and meaner.
Toy Soldier Campaign by Amnesty International is shocking. The whole war, conflicts, weapons and cruel executions have become a toy story indeed. Something that goes on and no and one really tries to stop. No one even gives a thought that it is being played out in front of children and a whole generation thus gets desensitized and grows up to be hateful. Social awareness campaigns such as these do bring home gruesome reality of faraway lands. In a world where wars and conflicts have been reduced to just developing news and breaking news it is heartening to see human right activists still carrying torch of hope.
Casualties of War The hell of war returns home. In July 2009 Colorado Springs Gazettea published a two-part series entitled “Casualties of War�. The articles focused on a single battalion based at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, who since returning from duty in Iraq had been involved in brawls, beatings, rapes, drunk driving, drug deals, domestic violence, shootings, stabbings, kidnapping and suicides. Returning soldiers were committing murder at a rate 20 times greater than other young American males. A seperate investigation into the high suicide rate among veterans published in the New York Times in October 2010 revealed that three times as many California veterans and active service members were dying soon after returning home than those being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. We hear little about the personal hell soldiers live through after returning home The following Plastic Toy Soldiers reveal the struggle with PTSD. They are a British artists' ode to Colorado Springs soldiers and UK soldiers suffering with the same problem. Plastic moulded figurines with bases 7cm high
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