Courage to Resist, 11:38 min. November 14, 2007

In 2002, Thomas "TJ" Buonomo entered the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he majored in Middle Eastern studies and also studied Arabic. When he graduated, TJ cross-commissioned into the Army, believing that being on the ground in the Middle East would be the best use of his knowledge and abilities. Although he supported the war in Afghanistan, TJ had serious misgivings and concerns about what the U.S. was doing in Iraq, and began writing e-mails to fellow officers expressing his views. His chain of command learned about the e-mails, investigated, and determined that his criticism of Vice President Dick Cheney constituted a crime under military law. Rather than court-martial him, the Army discharged him.