Yoshie, Re: Successful Anti-war demonstration

Stephen E Philion philion at hawaii.edu
Sun Sep 30 19:32:35 PDT 2001


Yoshie, Maybe the good forlks at Veterans for Peace might know. url: http://www.veteransforpeace.org/

a ww2 veteran I read about: http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemId=11997

Steve

On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> > > In the FT piece I posted yesterday, a woman who was a clerk at an air
> >> force base during the Gulf War said that lots of flyers were appalled
> >> by what they'd done and some even turned in their wings. Has anyone
> >> else heard anything like that?
> >>
> >> Doug
> >
> >In one of the last (if not the last) Gulf War panels I participated in, I
> >went up against an Army officer (Captain, I believe) who was a veteran of
> >the infamous Turkey Shoot in the desert. While he disagreed with just about
> >everything I'd said, he confessed that the Shoot was a disgrace to the US
> >and that it sickened him. Apparently, he watched but did not join in. Still,
> >the disgust on his face seemed genuine.
> >
> >DP
>
> Is there any _group_ of the Gulf War veterans (as opposed to
> individual Gulf War veterans) that has come out against the impending
> war publicly? If anyone knows such a group, let me know. If no such
> group exists today, I wonder if leftists -- especially leftists who
> are also veterans -- have a chance of creating one.
>
> Yoshie
>



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