'But I still had to shoot him'
by Sam Roggeveen
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2 September 2010 9:12AM
With President Obama declaring the Iraq 'combat mission' officially over (though George Packer calls it 'a meaningless milestone, constructed almost entirely out of thin air'), this seems like a good moment for a personal reflection on the toll of war.
The voice you hear in this animation is of American Battle of the Bulge veteran Joseph Robertson.
(H/t Daily What.)
