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The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.

Chris Hedges

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Chris Hedges
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 18
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War Correspondent
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St. Johnsbury
Vermont
Christopher Lynn Hedges
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