Ricky's Death in Iraq

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Ricky's premature baldness, for example, the meat head, skin head thing. I remember one time he even came dressed up in school more like very Chicano, Cholo style. He had some real dark looks on with the bandana across the forehead real broad. And while Kevin acknowledged Ricky could be something of a bully, he also told me about times when he saw Ricky as a protector.

The war in Iraq has been declared over by nearly every president since the one who started it 20 years ago today. But it’s still not done. At SXSW in Austin, Texas, Sean Rameswaram explained why it’s important we remember.

This episode was written by Sean Rameswaram, produced by Sean and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and mixed by Paul Robert Mounsey.

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