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Thursday, November 6, 2014

WAR INK In Their Own Words

Combat veterans talk about 'war ink'
Army Times
Nov. 6, 2014


“24 veterans ... 100 tattoos ... 1,000 stories.”

With nearly 2 million veterans in California and a generation of veterans returning home across the nation as 12 years of faraway combat winds down, the Contra Costa County Library in California is launching “War Ink,” an online exhibit of Iraq and Afghanistan veteran memorial tattoo art.

Set to go live online on Veterans Day, Nov. 11 at www.warink.org, the exhibit represents a platform to explore the unfiltered record of war that veterans have documented on their bodies — and how that body ink serves as a unique and poignant means for veterans to explain their combat experiences to others in far more powerful way than words alone can convey.
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War Ink
Nov 4, 2014
War Ink is a virtual exhibit that combines original video, photography, and audio to present the stories of military veterans in their own words.

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