The Photos That Inspired Neil Young To Record "Living With War"

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In case you missed the post in LBN, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2285367&mesg_id=2285367 there is an article at Editor and Publisher today that quotes Neil Young as explaining that he was inspired to start recording the album after seeing a photo by David Gilkey in the Detroit Free Press back in March.

Here are some of the photos, the original Detroit Free Press/USAToday article and the E&P article posted at their website today:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006603270440

Medics' work in Iraq could save civilians
BY GREGG ZOROYA
USA TODAY
March 27, 2006

AD DULUIYAH, Iraq -- Even with 10 milligrams of morphine, Army Sgt. Robert Mundo lay in agony after a sniper's bullet pierced his upper thigh and blasted through his groin.

Carried to an empty stretch of causeway to meet a medevac helicopter, Mundo gripped the hand of another soldier as medic Bridgett Joseph surveyed the bloody damage. Then Joseph reached into her bag for a bandage no other war has seen.

Made with an extract from shrimp shells, the HemCon bandage created a tight bond that stopped the bleeding almost instantly. Seconds later, Mundo, 24 -- a widower from Colorado Springs, Colo., and the father of two young girls -- was airlifted to the Air Force Theater Hospital at Balad Air Base, 10 miles away. He got there in 5 minutes.

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Neil Young's Antiwar CD Inspired by 'Detroit Free Press' Photo

By E&P Staff

Published: May 15, 2006 10:35 AM ET

NEW YORK Veteran rocker Neil Young's new political CD, "Living with War," is one of the hottest sellers in the nation -- number three on Amazon's list today -- and according to an article in the Detroit Free Press on Monday it was significantly inspired by a photograph in that paper.

The CD, which includes several antiwar songs and "Let's Impeach the President," was recorded hastily this spring. It seems that the initial inspiration came when Young saw a photograph by the Free Press's David Gilkey, which was republished in USA Today.

Young told Rolling Stone magazine that he was staying in an unspecified hotel on March 27 when "I went down to the coffee machine and there was USA Today. The cover showed a large military craft converted into a flying hospital. The caption said something about how we are making great strides in medicine as a result of the Iraq conflict.

"That just caught me off guard, and I went upstairs and wrote 'Families' for one of those soldiers who didn't get to come home. Then I cried in my wife's arms. That was the turning point for me." An entire album quickly followed.

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