When American soldiers fought against Vietnam War
“Sir, No Sir!” an Audience Award winner for best documentary at the Los Angeles Film Festival, tells the largely unknown story of the GI movement against the war in Vietnam.
I was a soldier once
I was a soldier once. I can almost hear myself telling that to my grandchildren with a shameful exhortation and a need to feel important to the ones I love. I sometimes wonder what stories I will end up telling them. “Everyone thought I was a hero!” Which is true. Besides the letters saying so from my family, I received letters and packages from complete strangers telling me so.
Refusing Iraq Army lieutenant chooses prison over deploying to illegal war
Ehren Watada is a 28-year-old first lieutenant in the United States Army. He joined the Army in 2003, during the run-up to the Iraq war, and turned in his resignation to protest that same war in January of 2006. Journalist Sarah Olson spoke with Watada in late May about his reasons for joining the military, and why he wants out.
American people can end this war Democrats push for Iraq pullout
WASHINGTON — The toll of U.S. war dead in Iraq hit 2,500 last week and Democratic lawmakers took to the floor of the Senate and House to demand that the war end and the troops be brought home. They were responding to the surging opposition to the war among their constituents in an election year.
