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This Winter's Soldiers

March 31, 2008 - 12:00am
By Perry OBrien

One student — a veteran, conscientious objector and anti-war leader — tells his story.

Over the weekend of March 14, as most students were preparing for spring break, something incredible happened in our nation’s capitol. For the second time in U.S. history, combat veterans from a current war gathered to testify on immoral and illegal military policies they had witnessed while serving abroad. The event, called Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, drew over two hundred veterans. Over three days, veterans offered testimony on the killing of innocent civilians, torture, waste, discrimination, sexual assault, fraud, and the mutilation of the dead. Testifiers represented a broad swathe of the military, having served in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army and Marine Corps, from the initial invasion to the surge.