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By Edward Colimore, Philadelphia Inquirer, November 27, 2006
PHILADELPHIA -- Marine Corps Lance Corporal John Rogowskyj Jr. says he is a conscientious objector and should be discharged from the service. He has been interviewed by a military chaplain, examined by a psychiatrist, and questioned by a hearing officer who recommended conscientious objector, or CO, status and immediate separation. But this month, Rogowskyj was deployed to Iraq. |
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By Associated Press, November 24, 2006
PHILADELPHIA - A Marine was deployed to Iraq this month after a military board rejected a recommendation that he receive conscientious objector status and a discharge. The C.O. Status Screening Board noted that Marine Lance Cpl. John Rogowskyj Jr. requested the status after he learned that his Reserve unit was being sent to Iraq and suggested that the request “was simply a means to avoid a combat deployment.” Rogowskyj, 22, was deployed Nov. 2. “He’s not supposed to be there,” Eugene R. Fidell, the lawyer representing him in federal court in Washington, told The Philadelphia Inquirer for Friday’s newspapers.
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"Like David Mitchell in the 1960s, Ehren Watada is not a pacifist. He offered to go to Afghanistan but refused to go to Iraq. He refused to go to Iraq for the same reason David refused to go to Vietnam, not because of objection to all wars, but because of a conviction that war crimes were being committed in this particular war, giving rise to an obligation, under the principles declared at Nuremburg, to refuse military service." by Staughton Lynd, published by The Nation, October 20, 2006. |
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Iraqi war vet faces court martial, jail, in bid to speak out against Bush
Mother `can't talk him out of it' but understands need to `heal himself'
by Phingo Gombu, Toronto Star, September 8, 2006 Darrell Anderson, a U.S. Army deserter who fought in Iraq and sought refugee status in Toronto, has decided to return home and face a possible court-martial — against his mother's wishes.
Anita Anderson said her son, whose life has been pretty "messed up" by his Iraqi experience, believes he has to speak out against President George W. Bush in the United States, even if it means a trial or going to jail.
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 Different Drummer Cafe, GI Coffeehouse, to open its doors Oct. 27, 2006
For more information, and a full schedule of events, visit: www.DifferentDrummerCafe.org
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