Mark Twain's "The War Prayer"
By Dum Luks, Section Diaries
Posted on Tue May 29, 2007 at 05:36:23 PM EST
Kevin Drum of Political Animal
(http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2007_05/011398.php) and others have pointed us to a new Video reading of Mark Twain's biting reaction to the Spanish American War of 1898.
Washington Monthly's publisher, Markos Kounalakis, who was affected by Twain's words when he covered the war in Yugoslavia in the early 90s, has made "The War Prayer" into a short video for release this Memorial Day weekend. It features stunning illustrations by Akis Dimitrakopoulos and is narrated by Peter Coyote, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Erik Bauersfeld.
http://thewarprayer.com/war_film.html
Highly recomended. As Twain said: "Only the dead can Tell the Truth."
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