The Messenger by Oren Moverman

Year 2009, Issue: 29, 133 - 136, 01.04.2009

Michael Oppermann

Abstract

The war in Iraq is history. But its effects are still to be felt. Nobody knows exactly how many civilians were killed. The figures and numbers are more precise when it comes down to American casualties. Until today 4.400 soldiers lost their lives. Others returned home as cripples and emotional derelicts suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD . Their fate is widely ignored by the media. In a similar way, we learn very little about the enormous suffering of the widows, the fathers and mothers who have to come to terms with the loss of their beloved.