“They
were not only photojournalists, they were essayists and artists,” recalled the
Paris-based CBS newsman David Schoenbrun in his book On and Off the Air.
“Dr.
Huxley asked Chim (David Seymour) to do a special study of the children of
Europe who had lived through the war. He did a photo album that was shown at
exhibits around the world, winning critical acclaim everywhere.”
“One was
a shell-shocked little girl of about 10, who had lived through savage bombings.
She was asked to do a drawing of the war. Chim’s picture showed her staring
wildly at the camera, her hair tossled, while behind her on the blackboard was
her ‘drawing,’ a tangled, mad scrawl of squiggles and clashing lines going
every direction with no form or shape. It was a powerful portrait of the deeply
disturbed mind.”
And that,
my friends, illustrates why the term “war of choice” is more obscene than any
expletive.
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