Iraq War One Year Later | Pottsville, PA Editorial 2004

Iraq War One Year Later | Pottsville, PA Editorial 2004

I tend to share stories from the deeper past here. The time period of many of my posts stretch across the 19th and early 20th centuries in Pennsylvania’s Coal Region. But sometimes the past we need to reckon with is not a century away. Sometimes it is only twenty years behind us. The editorial below appeared in the Pottsville Republican-Herald of Pottsville, PA in March 2004, marking the first anniversary of the United States invasion of Iraq. A…