Letter to the Editor

Take better care of our soldiers

Am I the only one who doesn’t get it?

A soldier returns from Iraq with half of his face blown off (News, Oct. 2, “Operation Mend offers surgery to servicemen”) and a charity has to be involved in paying for his reconstructive surgery?

What kind of people are we?

Our government sends soldiers off to war and then, when they are wounded, it doesn’t pay the complete bill to help them recover?

Perhaps we need to think more seriously about the entire cost of war before we so easily, almost joyously, go off on another war, in Iran, Pakistan or wherever.

John Agnew

Professor, Department of Geography