Thursday, May 5, 2011

7. Dorothy - Casualties of War




Dorothy is a collective of like-minded people working on unlike-minded ideas.
Over the years we’ve made, designed and promoted things, winning Design Week, D&AD and New York Festivals – although winning the Co-op’s under 12’s drawing competition still ranks up there as one of our proudest moments.
We mix working on commercial commissions with developing, producing and selling our own ideas. If you like what you see, let us know.

Casualties of War

The hell of war comes home. In July 2009 Colorado Springs Gazettea published a two-part series entitled “Casualties of War”. The articles focused on a single battalion based at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, who since returning from duty in Iraq had been involved in brawls, beatings, rapes, drunk driving, drug deals, domestic violence, shootings, stabbings, kidnapping and suicides. Returning soldiers were committing murder at a rate 20 times greater than other young American males. A seperate investiagtion into the high suicide rate among veterans published in the New York Times in October 2010 revealed that three times as many California veterans and active service members were dying soon after returning home than those being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. We hear little about the personal hell soldiers live through after returning home

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