Almost Gone by Graham Nash and James Raymond

Written and Performed by
Graham Nash and James Raymond

A companion video for "Almost Gone" -- a new song by legendary singer-songwriter Graham Nash and musician James Raymond (son of David Crosby) -- is being released today in support of accused U.S. Army whistleblower Bradley Manning. The free download is available on Nash's website (www.grahamnash.com) and the Bradley Manning Support Network site www.bradleymanning.org.

The release is timed to Manning's first judicial hearing scheduled for December 16th, following more than 17-months in custody, including a year in solitary confinement that Amnesty International has characterized as "harsh and punitive."

Visually, the Almost Gone video is punctuated with bold graphics, disturbing images and harsh facts. Its release is scheduled to precede Manning's pre-trial hearing on December 16, which is the day before his 24th birthday. The Bradley Manning Support Network has named the following day, December 17, its International Day of Solidarity (http://events.bradleymanning.org/). PFC Manning, an Army intelligence analyst who had been stationed near Baghdad, was arrested in May 2010 under suspicion of leaking classified information, including a video showing the killing of civilians, to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.

Nash and Raymond composed the song "Almost Gone (The Ballad of Bradley Manning)" during this spring's US tour of Crosby-Nash, and the new recording serves as the music bed for the video; it features an impassioned lead vocal by Nash, a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted (Crosby, Stills & Nash, and The Hollies). "Bradley Manning is a hero to me," he sings, acknowledging Manning's role in making public videos and documents that shed light on such as issues as the true number and cause of civilian casualties in Iraq, human rights abuses by U.S.-funded contractors and foreign militaries, and the role that spying and bribes play in international diplomacy.

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[SamKnause]

Love the song.

Sad there is a need for it.

Free Bradley Manning

Free Julian Assange

Prosecute the War Criminals

Prosecute the Wall Street thieves

Prosecute the war profiteers ripping off U.S. tax dollars

Occupy the Planet

[Janba32]

@echosyst Yes, our soldiers were "just following orders." That is what the Nazi and Japanese soldiers did during World War 2 = "just following orders." Iraq & its people were not our enemy. The Bush regime was the enemy of peace.

The Nuremberg trials following the war ruled that "just following orers' was no excuse.

In the Iraqq war, built on lies, soldiers were following orders by a regime that should have been tried for war crimes. Manning is a hero for exposting those crimes.

[WILMAandBETTYrock]

Bradley Manning - nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize...... YES !

[AMSTARDUSTI]

YES, THANK YOU GRAHAM, ON BEHALF OF THE HUMAN RACE.... 

[BillLee23]

Thank you Graham for continuing to tell the truth,pointing out hypocracy and injustice after all these years.You are loved.PEACE

[echosyst]

@Janba32 So now you are comparing our soldiers to Nazi war criminals? Yeah that is sane. The Nazi's fully intended to slaughter innocent people, our guys try *not* to do that as much as possible. Manning should have never joined the service.

[echosyst]

@Janba32 Fighters without uniforms are considered unlawful combatants under the Geneva Convention. If a force invaded the US I would shoot them of course. If an enemy soldier released intel damaging to his side he would be shot too. War is hell and Manning decided he would break his oath and release information that was harmful to his own country. He knew the rules, he broke them, he will face the consequences. Our soldiers were doing what they were told to do, which is kill the enemy.

[ManicDeprescion]

This is such a tragic story. A selfless act to educate. He has sacrificed himself for all of us to Know.

His treatment is telling.

And then a large segment of our population has been deceived into believing he's the bad guy. I don't understand how the deceivers are able to sleep at night.

[Janba32]

@echosyst If this country were invaded & occupied by a foreign entity that had wiped out much of our armed forces do you think that patriotic Americans would wait on niceities like uniforms before attacking the invaders? I don't think so. Most Americans would do what they could to drive out the invaders. I guess you would sit on your hands until the Americans fighting the invaders could get proper uniforms.

Please cite the portion of international law saying uniforms are required.

[Janba32]

 Yes there were French who helped the Nazis just as there are Iraqis who have helped us.But there were other French who fought to free their country from the clutches of the invader. They didn't bother having uniforms made so I guess you would say they were violating international law. In other countries ie. Poland, Yugoslavis, Czechoslovaka there were freedom fighters called partisans. No uniforms either to make it easier for the Nazis to identify and kill them.

[echosyst]

@Janba32 By the way, Many of the French helped the Nazis occupy their country and the rest surrendered after a few days so your analogy is wanting to say the least.