Veterans For Peace - Protesting RNC

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"As war in Iraq heads toward a second year, a committed group of veterans who served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War I, and the current military campaign gathered in Philadelphia in February to plan their role in a coordinated Iraq peace campaign.

“We’re small in numbers,” one of the vets said candidly, “but we have a tremendous impact.” Veterans for Peace, the St. Louis-based organization sponsoring the meeting at the American Friends Service Committee headquarters, has a few thousand members nationwide. But these are activists who know how to network and leverage their credibility as blunt-spoken former warriors.

Many are also members of Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and other veterans’ organizations. They are part of a wide-ranging coalition that celebrated an historic victory last year in getting the US Navy to end bombing and shelling practice on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. The two dozen or so vets at the Mid-Atlantic regional meeting on Feb. 7 included several union members. Two of the participants were recently back from a peace mission to Iraq, where they accompanied a delegation of parents of GIs serving in the war. Another previously went to Iraq as a leader of a humanitarian project to help Iraqi villagers get clean sources of water.

And presenting a preview of the next stage of antiwar activism, one of the most outspoken vets was in the invasion of Iraq last year. “It’s really just a horrid situation,” said Michael Hoffman, a recently discharged Marine who told how his artillery unit was put on road-block duty and sent looking for evidence of Saddam Hussein’s supposedly dead body after the “shock and awe” campaign subdued a dispirited Iraqi army."

http://www.veteransforpeace.org/