"These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value."
Winter Soldier December 18, 2008
Hank
Garett pt1
Garett pt2
Garett Reppenhagen served with Jeff Engelhart in Iraq and co-authored the blog "Fight to Survive". Garett points out that through their entire GI resistance process, they stayed within the boundaries of UCMJ and were granted honorable discharges. Garett was the first active-duty member of IVAW.
Raf Naboa
David Mann
Dom Rosas
Bobby G
Rick Duncan
Jeff Englehart
National Winter Soldier Hearings
Jeff Englehart
Garett Reppenhagen
Dom Rosas
Kelly Dougherty
Before Congress
KELLY DOUGHERTY
Kelly was a military police sergeant with the Colorado National Guard. She escorted convoys of KBR trucks. They regularly broke down, and the convoy would continue while MPs were left behind to guard the trucks until they could be towed away. Iraqi civilians would gather, hoping to loot the trucks because the Iraqis were poor and the cargo was valuable. Often, they would later be ordered to destroy and abandon the trucks. Once, when they were ordered to destroy a truck loaded with food, she proposed to her superior that they let the people have the food. But he told her that would be too dangerous because people would come close to the MPs and might attack them. So she wound up pointing a machine gun at Iraqis people to keep them away as the food burned. "When you're in the military, you want to feel proud, you want to feel good about what you're doing," she said. "That made me feel really ashamed."