Soldiers React to Prison Abuse

When Youth Radio reporters in Oakland, CA, spoke with their friends returning home from Iraq, they realized that the public wasn't hearing the perspectives of these young soldiers.

2004 / Belia Mayeno Choy / NPR's Morning Edition, USA

When Youth Radio reporters in Oakland, CA, spoke with their friends returning home from Iraq, they realized that the public wasn't hearing the perspectives of these young soldiers.

So they produced a series, Reflections on Return. In this piece, reporter Belia Mayeno Choy talks to Ed Reyes, a Marine who returned from Iraq just after the prison abuse scandal broke at Abu Ghraib.


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