veterans

Home from Iraq, vets battle Pentagon There has to be a better way of solving our problems than war

May 25, 2007 By Tim Wheeler

WASHINGTON — President Bush will churn out shopworn platitudes about the sacrifices of the nation’s brave soldiers this Memorial Day. But many of the soldiers, active duty and retired, are not listening. Instead, they want Bush...

My father’s victory in the Pacific

June 23, 2006 By Greg Palast

In 1995, in Chicago, veterans of Silver Post No. 282 celebrated the 50th anniversary of their victory over Japan, marching around a catering hall wearing their old service caps, pins, ribbons and medals. My father sat...

Iraq Veterans Against the War founded

July 31, 2004 By Tim Wheeler

BOSTON – War veterans and their allies gathered in historic Faneuil Hall on the eve of the Democratic National Convention to demand the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and to call for the defeat...

A veteran’s call for peace

November 10, 2001 By Lou Diskin

If you studied the mien of the men, you could tell the war was over.