March 18, 2008
Iraq Vet Tomas Young and Eddie Vedder Want "No More" War
As war protest songs go, they don't come more pointed or authentic than Eddie Vedder's "No More," which the Pearl Jam frontman extrapolated from 26 year-old veteran Tomas Young's brief—and literally paralyzing—Army tour of Iraq. The song's video, poured into the tubes yesterday by "online political and social action community" Think MTV, is just as sincere and direct.
"No More" is just one song on a double-disc soundtrack to the Phil Donahue/Ellen Spiro-produced documentary Body of War. The film chronicles Tomas Young's Iraq experience, from enlistment to debilitating injury to eventual anti-war activism.
Like the song? Like the message? You can get the soundtrack—Body of War: Songs that Inspired an Iraq War Veteran—today. (Proceeds benefit Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), a non-profit that works to "give voice to the large number of active-duty service people and veterans who are against the war, but are under various pressures to remain silent.") And you can catch Body of War at the Varsity on April 18.


