“Nurse, Bring Me My Guitar”: Mercy and Revolutio

firedoglake.com — Eric's family came to Texas from St. Joseph, Michigan, where his great-grandfather, grandfather and father had worked at an auto brake plant. The jobs are gone now, the brakes made in Brazil or China. His heartfelt song, "The War," is about his brother heading off to Iraq just as the neighbor boy next door comes home from the occupation in a coffin