Anti-War Stories: Adrienne Kinne and Douglas Peacock

Home of the Brave

Scott Carrier

Society And Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Adrienne Kinne just after basic training in 1994.

I should confess that I have a personal interest in listening to veterans talk about how they recover from war. I was never in the military, but I spent some time overseas as a war correspondent for Esquire, Harper’s, and Mother Jones magazines. I was never in a battle or close to a bomb going off. I saw the aftermath—bodies on the ground, neighborhoods turned to rubble, people silent and in shock. The main thing I have to deal with is knowing that a couple times people who were helping me with my stories were punished, severely, after I left. I got to fly home to America and they had to stay there and suffer the consequences for helping me. I carry this guilt. So when veterans speak of their experiences recovering from war I listen very carefully.

Check out the Veterans for Peace website.

Here’s a link to Doug Peacock’s website. And a link to Save the Yellowstone Grizzly.

And the link to the video of Brandi Carlile performing live on KEXP.

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Douglas Peacock south of Ajo, Arizona, 2020

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0:00.0	Welcome to Home of the Brave. I'm Scott Carrier. I should confess that I have a personal interest in listening to veterans talk about how they recover from war. I was never in the military but I spent some time overseas as a war
0:16.9	correspondent for Esquire, Harpers, and Mother Jones magazines.
0:22.6	I was never in a battle or close to a bomb going off.
0:26.6	I saw the effects of these things after they were over.
0:30.3	Bodies on the ground, neighborhoods turned to rubble people silent and in shock.
0:37.0	The main thing I have to deal with is knowing that a couple of times,
0:42.6	people who were helping me with my stories
0:45.0	were punished severely after I left.
0:49.6	I got to fly home to America,
0:51.7	but they had to stay there and suffer the consequences.
0:56.2	And it was my fault.
0:58.3	If I hadn't been there, it wouldn't have happened.
1:01.5	I carry this guilt. So when veterans speak of their experiences recovering from war,
1:08.4	I listen very carefully. But then I think there are a lot of people, a lot of Americans anyway, who've been through traumatic experiences and need to recover from them.
1:22.0	We live in a violent culture.
1:25.0	I have two more interviews with veterans.
1:29.0	The first is with Adrian Kenny, who is now president of Veterans for Peace. She joins and way to go to college. She served 10 years, state side, as an Arab linguist intercepting
1:46.5	communications. She can't really talk about that because it's classified, but she can talk about how when she got out of the Army,
1:56.0	she began to feel like she was going insane.
2:00.0	She had a job with the VA, studying vets with traumatic brain injuries.
2:05.0	Yeah, so after I got out of the military, I went back to school and finished my
2:11.0	Masters in Psychology. I really wanted to work as a counselor working with
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