Ronald Glasser Speaking Tonight at UUFR

March, 31, 2008 , by Jedidiah

Dr. Ronald Glasser was on The State of Things last week and has been speaking over the past couple of days in various venues in the area. Glasser was a medic in the Vietnam War and has a good amount of stories to tell. As part of the UUFR’s Sunday Service, he and the Fellowship’s head force Rev. Tom Rhodes presented “On War” which honored the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war by considering the human cost of this conflict — a cost measured not in lives lost, but in lives that have been saved. Tonight, he will “A War of Disabilities,” at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh, 3313 Wade Ave. A very intelligent and traveled vet, this should be an interesting conversation.

Glasser has been writing about the medical costs of war ever since he served in an Army hospital during Vietnam. Today, he writes about the signature weapon used against U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan —the improvised explosive device. Dr. Glasser visited Chapel Hill and Raleigh this weekend to discuss the legacy of these weapons: everything from traumatic head injuries and amputations, to post-traumatic stress and a new form of “shell shock.”

His book - “Wounded: Vietnam to Iraq.”

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Website

The State of Things Interview with Glasser