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02
Jul
By Luke Randl - a graphic cartoon series about the NATO protest and Iraq Veteran’s Against the War and why we threw our Global War on Terror Medals back. He was very kind and drew me in the center there. Such an honor to share the stage with my IVAW service members. (click through for link to the whole protest. It’s interactive!)
25
May
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Those were the words I screamed into a microphone before thousands of people as I threw my Global War On Terror Service medal back to NATO. I had to throw it because no one from NATO came out to get it, and the police wouldn’t allow us up to the barricade. Their fear of us — US war veterans who challenge ten years of US war-making and publicly advocate for peace — is symbolic of their fear to confront real problems.
I threw my medal back, though, in fact, I never deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
21
May
Me, about an hour before I threw back my global war on terror service medal back to NATO.
The statement I made with 45 other Iraq/Afghan vets in front of thousands of people:
My name is Shawna, and I was a nuclear biological chemical specialist for a war that didn’t have any weapons of mass destruction. So I deserted. I’m one of 40,000 people that left the United States Armed Forces because this is a lie!
Read more: http://www.democracynow.org/2012/5/21/no_nato_no_war_us_veterans
