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- Sydney Lewis
- Username: slewis
- Location: Rochester, Massachusetts
- Joined PRX: Sep 06, 2003
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- "Profile of Cpl. Chris Kotch"
- Summary: Spencer Scott interviews Cpl. Chris Kotch an Iraq War Veteran who recently returned to the US with a devastating throat injury.
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Review of Profile of Cpl. Chris Kotch
Sydney Lewis
Posted on April 20, 2004 at 12:07 PM
A brief, intense audio portrait of a moment in young Kotch's life that is almost cinematic in its precise imagery. While we don't know exactly what happened to him, or what the injury was, the sound of his voice tells you something bad happened. It is not a normal sound, this voice he has. To hear him describe his "million dollar wound," (a wound that sends you home) followed by his yearning to return to the war is haunting. His descriptions of his erratic behavior and of his mother's reactions, are powerful and succinct. Very well edited. Already been on ATC, but would work as drop-in on ME, or around any programming about the war, the soldiers, the losses incurred.