The majority of the dead and wounded in modern wars – up to 90 percent – are children.

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Vietnam War doctor hopes memoir will influence US Senate on Iraq


An American doctor who volunteered to serve in Vietnam during the war has sent 100 copies of his Vietnam War memoirs to US senators in an attempt to influence the debate on the Iraq War.
Not all senators had seen war firsthand, Dr. Allen Hassan observed, and the experience of war was extremely sobering.

Failure to Atone: The True Story of a Jungle Surgeon in Vietnam is a powerful testament to the misery, death, and suffering of civilian populations caught in an aggressive war.

A former US Marine Corps Sergeant, Hassan's experiences as a doctor in Vietnam during the height of the Vietnam War turned him into a pacifist.

Failure to Atone describes the atrocities, horrors and intimidation he witnessed in Vietnam.

Failure to Atone notes that most casualties of modern war are not soldiers, but rather civilians. The majority of the dead and wounded in modern wars – up to 90 percent – are children.

While approximately 4,000 American soldiers have died in Iraq, prestigious medical journals such as The Lancet have estimated there are more than half a million civilian dead.