Montclair
parents say no to military
Cherry's mother was furious when she found out the district was
releasing her child's information without her express
consent 19
January 2005
|
Rancor
in the U.S. Ranks
It's the mothers who are
warning their kids about going to war 17
January 2005
|
Aussage von Gina
Izett fűr die unabhăngige Untersuchung der Golfkriegskrankheiten
Doch ich glaube das ich
die Kraft haben werde und wenn ich denke ich schaffe es nicht denke ich stets
daran: Er war nicht immer so und er ist tief im Herzen auch nicht so sondern so
gemacht worden.
13
Oktober 2004
Statement
from Gina Izett to the Independent Inquiry into Gulf War Illnesses (London)
I believe that
I will have the strength and when I think that I won't cope, I
always think that he was not always this way and he still is not deep
down in his heart but he has
been made to change like this.
13
October 2004
|
I
am an army wife
I wish the Bush
administration would take responsibility for the damage it is
causing to American families. Undated
|
Dissent
on the home front:
families of US soldiers in Iraq lead anti-war protests
Poor conditions and low morale among troops have produced an undercurrent
of dissent among US military families. We
received more than 70 emails and phone calls from relatives, all but two were negative - about the treatment of soldiers, the
reasons for the Iraq war, the pain of family separation and the
insensitivity of the military bureaucracy.
25 October 2003
|
Military Wife Rebuked for
E-Mail
A
campaign to raise awareness of the need for the [3rd Infantry
Division] to return.
26
July 2003 |
Our children will die
This
is not some abstract war that they are talking about. Our sons and
daughters will die, as will so many others.
April 2003 |
A
Colonel Runs
The
army wives, normally a bulwark of stoicism, staged a near-mutiny.
A colonel at Fort Stewart, who had been sent to soothe a meeting
of 800 of them, had to be escorted out of the hall under a torrent
of jeers and angry questions. 5 July
2003 |
Bring
Them Home Now!
So we are going to
give troops, their families, and critical veterans a voice. That's
the reason-for-being of "Bring Them Home Now!"
26
July 2003 |
They
spend billions of dollars in war and can’t spend a dollar on a
child
40%
of the US Army is Black and 60% of the US Marines are Latino.
One in 12 young Black men are in prison.
Should these be the only choices?
16 April
2003 |
Bring
Them Home Now!
We
parents -- many of us -- know that our enemies are not in Iraq. Our
enemies are in office, and they have the
blood of children –some of
them ours --on their hands. Everyone is someone's child, even when
they are grown. Even when they take paths we don't approve of.
Even when they
become soldiers, and are sent to pay for lies with their bodies and
hearts and the blood of others.
26
July 2003 |
In
Iraq, U.S. Troops Are Still Dying -- One Almost Every Day
The family of Army Spc.
Rasheed Sahib, 22, of Brooklyn is particularly suspicious of the
military's explanation of his death. According to the Pentagon,
Sahib and another soldier were cleaning their weapons when the other
soldier's weapon accidentally fired on May 18 in Balad, Iraq. The
round hit Sahib in the chest. 26 May 2003 |
Parents
of soldiers in the Gulf want a delay
Nancy
Lessin, one of founders of Military Families Speak Out has a stepson, Joe,
in the marines. She is a
union activist from Jamaica Plain near Boston, Massachusetts who was
previously active in opposing the Vietnam War. “If Iraq's main export
was olive oil, we wouldn't be facing the possibility of war.
This war isn't worth the life of one American soldier.” 17
January 2003 |
US
soldier mother speaks out for peace
Dear
Mr. Bush, This is my son Tim. You have been referring to him as
"military force." […] I want you to be continually mindful of
the fact that your "military force" has a mother and two sisters
that want you to value his life as we do. Not
only do you have the future of our nation to decide, you have my son's
future in your hands. April 2003 |
5000
mothers and fathers in Bolivia demand their sons to be discharged
Bolivia
is again in the midst of grassroots insurrection, with road blockades and
other actions to press the demands of a broad array of sectors.
But this article (in Spanish) reports on a march by more than 5000
parents in La Paz demanding that the government immediate discharge their
sons from the military, and not put their lives at risk in the road
blockades and confrontations.
Undated |