Ex-president Bush`s paintings tell of toll on those he sent to war
(Artdaily.org)

In some paintings, the wounds are plain to see: an arm or leg lost to war. In others, the injuries that US veterans suffered are hidden from view. But all of the works by former president George W. Bush -- painted as a tribute to the men and women he sent to war -- reflect the human toll of his decisions as commander-in-chief. Command Sergeant Major Brian Flom was wounded in the face by a rocket attack in Iraq in 2007. `That was the easy part,` he told AFP, standing beside a painting in which he appears with fellow military personnel, one of dozens of works on display at Washington`s Kennedy Center. `The challenging part was the TBI (traumatic brain injury) and the post-traumatic stress that accompanied a lot of time spent in a combat zone.` Recovery is `still going on -- it`s an everyday process