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I am a clinical psychologist in training. From that perspective I understand how much it took for these men to discuss the topics addressed in these panels and I thank them for speaking out. It is something that Americans as a whole do not know and need to hear. Many unfortunately have tuned out of these events and tuned into "reality" TV and other forms of television programming that are designed to numb the brain and shut out that which is unbearable and unthinkable. Please continue to get your message out. The mass media can not ignore this forever. Life, all life is too precious to be lost to this futile war.

Thank you so much for broadcasting Winter Soldier! I listened to bits and pieces while I was attending a workshop by Joanna Macy on saving the planet and dealing with our suppressed grief at what we are doing to it. My father was an Air Force pilot during WW 2. He served 28 years and retired as a Lt Col. My uncle Jim was a fighter pilot and got shot down and killed over Athens before I was born.

My best friend's son Brian O'Donnel is a recon marine stationed at Camp Pendleton. He will turn 21 in November. He is close to being deployed to Iraq and knows nothing about the reality of what and where he is being sent. I've contacted the IVAW chapter in San Diego and asked for help. I know I cannot dissuade this young man from his dream as serving as a marine, but I am determined to give him some clue about what he may be facing before he gets killed, maimed, traumatized and pressured to commit attrocities!
Thank you KPFA from Shirley Mcclure

I am so grateful for all of you speaking up to the truth and what is REALLY happening over in the Middle East !
My son who just turned 18 - 2 weeks before his 18th birthday ... in the mailbox was his selective service card from William Gates...I am so afraid they will initiate a draft. I have two brothers who went to Vietnam and can see we are repeating history.....! When will America turn off those damn TV sets and find out the real truth?
Dr. Ron Paul is our only hope !!
From A concerned parent !

As a Muslim and an American I want to thank all the panalists for thier courage to speak out and hopefully bring attention to the suffering of the people in Iraq and Afganistan and the soldiers, to the rest of the nation. I would occationaly write e-mails and call our elected represenitives but because of Winter Soldier '08 I will write and call and try to affect change much more than before as Allah wills. And I give Salam "Peace " to all those involved, again thank you.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88346816

The conference was touching, but you continue to be behind the learning curve on the underlying issues, just as almost all the veterans were for the entirety of their military careers. Imagine a person joining the military to make the world a better place! That is about as delusory as one can get! Imagine anyone ever believing a single word from George W. Bush or Dick Cheney in the days after 9/11/2001 or any other time! Imagine going off to join the Army to pay back Iraq for 9/11! That is about as ignorant as a human can get, and yet many young persons did exactly that.

The same ignorance is perpetuated by KPFA, which misses the Big Picture of Peak Oil and the pending collapse of the world financial system, which is all part of the Big Picture missed completely during the Winter Soldier Forum. The U.S. government obviously lied about the reasons for invading Iraq and Afghanistan, but KPFA has failed to emphasize the reasons why the US government must continue the occupation in order to maintain the goals of a dominant US Economy and military in a world of increasing hyper-competitiveness and increasing resource scarcity.

KPFA was recently begging members for contributions, including endless suggestions that members put their contributions on credit cards! Imagine that while we watch the world's credit institutions and financial system melt down in a sea of debt! KPFA is perpetuating the very problems that the US military is supposed to solve by controlling Middle Eatern petroleum resources for the benefit of propping up the U.S. economy and world financial system.

Things will be getting dramatically worse, and the shaky status of the world economic system right now portend a likely collapse of the world economy, with much more suffering, compounded by global climate change, a likely reduction in the world's food supply for humans, a possible die off of millions of poor around the world, and the likelihood of more resource wars, not less. And this may very well lead to anarchy at home, the large-scale implementation of a police state in the U.S. and the evolution of an American insurgency against the government.

Why can't you guys see the Big Picture? PTSD is a minor issue for a relatively few people compared with the shit that is about to hit the fan, and I never saw Aaron and Aimee put any of this in context.

I really appreciate being able to follow the webcasts of the winter soldier II events this weekend.

On Saturday when I searched the web for winter soldier I found your website. Today when I search I find a website called www. wintersoldier.com that discredits both the winter soldier events. this is disturbing to say the least.

Thanks again.

LG

It is very important to make links to past wars. I've just heard one WWII Vet saying he and his compatriots stopped a planned US war in China immediately after the end of WWII by massive 10,000 servicemen protests. Then another saying that as a result of service in Iraq babise were born with very serious health problems (see 'Beyond Treason' for graphic evidence)http://video.google.com/ googlepl...824137117584395
But there are another two issues which should be investigated by the Vets: Pearl Harbor (see Robert Stinnett's 'Day of Deceit') & the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in the Six-Day War of 1967 (see Peter Hounam's book 'Operation Cyanide', and videos 'Loss of Liberty' and 'Dead in the Water', both on -
http://video.google.com/ videopla...134620652018859
These events will show just what the High Command and Admin think about servicemen, and also may draw them into investigating what really happened on 9/11. Paul Barbara London UK

That was so cool..everybody singin' Happy Birthday to ya! :)
http://soldiervoices.net/ is his website!
YEA!

Again the whole program reminded me of how I lost my brother in viet nam. Moments so painful. Thank you. I realize that I have never cried. My brother was in an open casket but he was Under a Glass cover and the officials would not allow me to approach my brothers casket. They let my mother and others to have a close view. I know that my brother had a huge knot on the left side of his neck and the telegram said that he apparently fell over board and died.

I hope that you can give us in the Bay Area an opportnity to voice our healing from the loss of war victums.

Sincerely

My Lai Massacre Remembered

On March 16, 1968, the men of Charlie Company entered the hamlet of My Lai in central Quang Ngai province and killed 504 civilians, mostly women and children.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSHAN12142120080316

There's a brief video and photo slideshow at site as well

what about including Israeli in soldiers in this program? There must be soldiers from many countries and who served with UN who have failure stories to report. Sorry this only just came to me.

I would like to read your book. Could you give me the title so I may find it?
Thanks

As a woman nurse vet who served in Vietnam, I attended a retreat for vets given by Thich Nhat Hanh. It was, ironically, a quote from this Vietnamese monk that started me on a path to healing (far from complete as my three days of non-stop crying during these testimonials has shown): "You have seen many awful things, sometimes by your own hands. But do not think you are the only one responsible. You went for your country, You saw for your country." The rest I do not remember word for word, but it was to say that we can serve as the points of light to teach our people the truth of war. I've never had the strength to do more than write a book, and I'm eternally grateful to these young men and women for standing in my place.

That was amazing PHIL! My sentiments exactly! HEAR! HEAR!

The overwhelming force of testimony delivered this weekend brings home, with tears, the same tragic lessons that were so clearly delineated by the brilliant psychiatrist, Robery J. Lifton in his book - "Home from the War: Learning from Vietnam Veterans".
Like Vietnam, once again we see the patterns of how, military command systematically establishes and promotes the the exact type of Morality Destroying Environment that is almost guaranteed to trigger, in a stress of violence moments, "atrocity producing situations".
Robert J. Lifton continues his work with Iraq & Afghanistan vets. He also exposes the notion of America's propensity toward "Apocolyptic Violence" - the idea that (in Vietnam) "in order to save the village, they had to destroy the village".
This weekend we hear how, in order to "make Iraq safe" we are destroying Iraq and its people. Why must we must serve Iraq billions of undeserved bullets and shells? just so McDonalds start delivering billions of unwanted hambergers, and Exon-Mobil-BP-SHELL and pull the $9 TRILLION worth of oil (NOW worth 7 trillion more than invasion in 2003).
On Memorial day 2007, I wrote this poem which follows. I was so sick of the lies and bloggers arguing - "support the troops", "Impeach Cheney" ...
I crafted this piece as a Poetec I.E.D. blast square in the face of the caravan of ceaseless propaganda pouring from our corporate (G.E) dominated U.S. media.

2008: Final Two Words -
QUAGMIRE & IMPEACHMENT

What Americans think, feel, vote, and say has zero bite.
With millions of votes Diebold stolen, accountability - so slight.
NeoRadical RepubliCons chose how to so waste our might ---
Just where, when, and why we had to go START a fight.
They'd planned for Iraq, with 30 years more oil still in sight.
Must control the price and flow into OUR gas tanks, right?
Exxon-Mobil, BP, Shell - profits future sure looks bright!
Hyped bogus threats, then fanned the flames to such great height.
9/11, Anthrax, and the mushroom cloud types of fright.

Pulled the Towers, then, with balled-up flags to plug their ears:
A Patriot Act panic attack => waived our rights to calm the fears.
How well a shredded Constitution wiped away our wasted tears.
Slick magic trick: lasted 800 years - now Habeas Corpus disappears.
Load the planes with C-notes, no bids please, as toxic dust clears;
Corporate warriors - No Draft! It's a private war - Three Cheer$!
Fat cat$, well fed by exce$$ corporate greed, $uch profiteer$
Borrow two billion daily; keep wasting dollars now six straight years.
Tens of billions fraud, whistleblowers stalled in Justice: no one hears.
Say what, a change of plan to end war profits? Sharpen up the spears!
Another traitor to be skewered, trot out the NeoCon-tradicting seers.
From Limpbowel, O’Rlie-to-me, and their ilk, we start to hear the jeers.
Interrupting homophobic rants about "No Marriage for queers",
To deliver freshly think-tank-framed simplistic scripted smears.

Sad sight, so many flags draped over coffins never seen.
The sinister lies that filled them burried deep beneath such patriotic sheen.
Human losses well disguised, and media filtered from our collective eyes,
By corporate puppet leaders, whose agendas we must now despise.

Pity Iraqi families, alone with blood, pain, death, despair,
Depleted uranium shells explode - poison dust spreads everywhere,
While pompous jingo windbags fill the U.S. propaganda-polluted air,
Will spews of false praise glory, hide the true neglect in veterans' care?
Fox Snooze hype NOT, as your heroes, our loved ones lost;
Their blood for oil - spent badly – much too high this cost.
Keith Rupert Murderdoch, the boss who must be tossed!

Long past his “Mission Accomplished” day in years now more than four,
One so delusional Decider is still not looking for an exit door.
One aggressor, an invasion-occupation, never was a war!
The stench, the smell - corruption, failures everywhere,
Yet all we hear is that which plays upon our deepest fear.
A drone of platitudes preached to stretch our stay another year.

“The job is almost done! “
“Must keep them Terrorists on the run!”
“We sure can't abandon Iraq until we've won.”
"Sorry for the 100 dead civilians per insurgent one.”
“Just aother 30,000 surge, so send us your brave sons.”
“Trillion dollar debts, their kids can pay these no small sums!”
"Waterboarding works. Don't call it torture. We don't break thumbs!"
NO NO NO! Time true Patriots stand and shout “Impeach these Bums!”

Lean hard on traitors, like Lieberman, to not just lose their parties,
But to find our Republic again, while we still have one!
Target the REAL Axis of Evil => IMPEACH Cheney-Bush!
Perhaps small justice, but at least some!

Thank you, Amy, Aaron and KPFA, for making this historic broadcast available for the entire weekend. Special thanks to the men and women who have shown such dignity and courage throughout their testimonies.

This is an historic event. I pray it is the beginning of the movement towards peace that has, so far not been strong enough.

Thank you all, especially the panelists.

Linda Hanson
Alameda, CA

Thanks to all the participants for all of the truth, self-revelation, atonement - overwhelming! Agony, reality of war, blood of both nations, all the costs, completely hidden from average amurikans, all under the bloody grinning white house prix. Impeachment is our duty.
I am so grateful to the organizers, IVAW and the many others! But this MUST be seen and heard by more people!
The tragedy is the confluence of corp media blackout (looked in vain for ANY coverage all weekend), PR and propaganda blitz by OUR GOVT, echoed and amplified by the same corp media, and the impotence of Congress in the face of growing disgust of citizens.
I wish you healing and peace.

As painful as it is to hear the truth about this illegitimate war and occupation from these incredibly brave soldiers, I cannot not keep listening. This is truly an amazing program and I have personally encouraged over 30 friends and family members to listen, as well as to let their friends know about it. It is too important for people not to know about.

A continuing flashback that I have had these past three days while listening is from an Easter picnic I attended in March 2003. It was somewhat awkward when I ended up getting into an argument with several older men, some possible WW2 vets, regarding our impending invasion of Iraq. A picnic is supposed to be about fun and games, yet I couldn't help myself. I believed from the bottom of my heart that we were being duped into something very wrong, yet no one else took my side. My husband was torn, and sorry that I was not able to contain myself, but understood how deep my feelings were.

A year later I met one of these same men with whom I argued, this time at a memorial service (not related to the war). I had long ago put our argument aside, and was surprised when this man approached me and apologized for arguing with me, as he later realized that I was, indeed, right. I was impressed with him not only coming to that realization, but also going out of his way to let me know.

But what has been so tragic for me as I listen to story after story of these brave Iraqi veterans is that all of this could have and should have been prevented. These young people's lives have been broken. They have experienced things no human being should ever have to experience. And for what? For the power and greed of an administration unlike any other in history. So very tragic.

Thank you so much for this work. I truly hope it will accelerate the process for us to end this illegal occupation and make those at the top who are responsible pay for their horrendous actions.