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10
Nov

Huffington Post: This Veterans Day, Honor Those Who Say “No” to Immoral War

by Derrick Crowe
Originally published 11/10/10 at HuffingtonPost.com

November 11 is Veterans Day, the 10th Veterans Day since the Afghanistan War began. The burden of this brutal, futile war falls heaviest on a very small slice of the population: military members and their families. Many of them consider this war immoral, but their rights to object to fighting it on moral grounds are severely limited under current law.

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25
Jul

Testimony: Tyler Boudreau

“When I first got back, I wasn’t sleeping very much, about an hour or two a night…I would spend the duration of the night reading about the war…I just needed to be in Iraq all the time….My body was home but my head was still there.” – Tyler Boudreau – former US Marine Captain, Iraq War veteran, and author of Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine – testifying at the Truth Commission on Conscience in War on March 21, 2010.

24
Jul

Testimony: Logan Mehl-Laituri

“If I could serve our country without killing, I never would have been a conscientious objector…Christ bid me drop my weapon, and I had no choice but to respond.” – Logan Mehl-Laituri, US Army veteran with service in Iraq during OIF II and co-founder of Centurion’s Guild, testifying at the Truth Commission on Conscience in War on March 21, 2010.

23
Jul

Testimony: Camilo Mejía (Parts 1 and 2)

“People who paid the price were unarmed civilians…9 out of 10 of the people we killed were unarmed.” – Camilo Mejía, Army veteran and conscientious objector, testifying at the Truth Commission on Conscience in War on March 21, 2010.

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22
Jul

Testimony: Joshua Casteel

“There is no such thing as private conscience…you cannot have a personal feeling about a state of affairs and call it conscience.” – Joshua Casteel, Army veteran and former interrogator at Abu Ghraib, testifies at the Truth Commission on Conscience in War on March 21, 2010.

21
Jul

Commission Host: Herman Keizer (Parts 1 and 2)

“When you sin against your conscience, you have committed moral suicide.” – Chaplain Herman Keizer – US Army Colonel (ret), Vietnam veteran, and former chair of the National Conference on Ministry to the Armed Forces – testifying at the Truth Commission on Conscience in War on March 21, 2010.

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20
Jul

Testimony: Celeste Zappala (Parts 1 and 2)

“For the National Guard and their families there is no recourse to reject wars capriciously begun. For them, their long years of obligation may mean they will lose their families, their jobs, their health, and maybe their lives.” – Celeste Zappala – mother of Sgt. Sherwood Baker, PA National Guard, killed in Baghdad on April 26, 2004, while searching for WMD – testifying at the Truth Commission on Conscience in War on March 21, 2010.

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19
Jul

Testimony: Jacob Diliberto (Parts 1 and 2)

“There was a mythic story that was being told to the American people about what was happening in the war.” – Jacob Diliberto, US Marine veteran of OEF and OIF, testifying at the Truth Commission on Conscience in War on March 21, 2010.

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