Courage to Resist. 11:27 min. November 11, 2007

When Brad McCall joined the Army, he was enthusiastic about becoming a soldier and doing what he could to serve his country. After basic training, Brad was sent to Ft. Carson, Colorado, where GIs just back from Iraq told stories of violence against civilians that made him literally sick to his stomach. At that point, he began to rethink his decision to join the military as well as to look more critically at the ways the U.S. government has justified the war and occupation.

Brad determined that he was a conscientious objector and that he could never participate in the kind of violence he was hearing about. He applied for conscientious objector status and was denied. So he chose to go AWOL and make his way to Canada, where like other GI resisters in that country, he is awaiting a decision about his application for refugee status.