Refusing orders to serve again
Corvallis Gazette Times (Oregon)
by Benjamin Lewis and Brandon Neely
11/11/08
On this day, Veterans Day, we would like to express to the American public why we, veterans of the Global War on Terror, have chosen to refuse orders to reactivate into military service. We are direct witnesses to the horrors of this war, having experienced its atrocities at their source, and we have decided that we can no longer carry out these illegal and immoral policies.
We believe that veterans and active duty G.I.s are in a key position to stop illegal and unjust war, and we are inspired by the resistance of troops who stood against the war in Vietnam. One of the pre-eminent reasons for the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam was increasing dissent among the active duty troops stationed abroad and at home. By the end of the war, there were entire units refusing to participate in combat, many going as far as outright mutiny...
http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2008/11/11/news/community/6aaa04_lewissnd.txt
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veterans
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Benjamin+Lewis
by Benjamin Lewis and Brandon Neely
11/11/08
On this day, Veterans Day, we would like to express to the American public why we, veterans of the Global War on Terror, have chosen to refuse orders to reactivate into military service. We are direct witnesses to the horrors of this war, having experienced its atrocities at their source, and we have decided that we can no longer carry out these illegal and immoral policies.
We believe that veterans and active duty G.I.s are in a key position to stop illegal and unjust war, and we are inspired by the resistance of troops who stood against the war in Vietnam. One of the pre-eminent reasons for the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam was increasing dissent among the active duty troops stationed abroad and at home. By the end of the war, there were entire units refusing to participate in combat, many going as far as outright mutiny...
http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2008/11/11/news/community/6aaa04_lewissnd.txt
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veterans
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=atrocities
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Benjamin+Lewis
rudkla - 12. Nov, 11:13
