There never was a good war or a bad peace. ~Ben Franklin
"No NATO, No War": U.S. Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Return War Medals at NATO Summit
DemocracyNow.org - Democracy Now! broadcasts from Chicago, site of the largest NATO summit in the organization's six-decade history. On Sunday, veterans of t...
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Comment by Tony Nuspl on May 28, 2012 at 9:19pm
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Why I Threw Back My 'Global War on Terror' Medal --
by Shawna Foster -- published on Friday, May 25, 2012 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/25-3 Quote: "I'm one of the 40,000 people that left the United States Armed Forces because of the lie about Weapons of Mass Destruction!"
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Operation Iraqi Freedom medal. Tossed. Global War on Terror medal. Thrown. National Defense medal. Pitched. Marine Corps Good Conduct medal. Flung. Navy and Marine Corps medal. Chucked. --
article in The Guardian (UK) about anti-NATO demonstration in Chicago this weekend:
"US war veterans tossing medals back at Nato was a heroic act" : Nato summit leaders should have been forced to watch the moving protest of the former troops chucking their medals away --
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/may/21/us-w...
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