Author: CTR

He says “The things I learned and saw while I was in made me lose respect for the US government and the people who run it.

Private Torres surrendered at Ft. Myers, Virginia later that day and was sent to Ft. Knox, Kentucky. Wilfredo reported that at least sixty other AWOL soldiers were in the unit when he arrived.

Abdullah Webster first enlisted in the US Army in 1985. He fought in the first Gulf war of 1990-91, and later served as a peacekeeper in Bosnia.

I saw the Iraqi people as no threat and couldn’t see why people were getting killed for this.

A few weeks after learning that his unit was headed to Iraq, he walked off base and got on a bus to Toronto. Fearing deportation, he kept a low profile until finding lawyer Jeffry House.

“Just because you volunteer to do something, it doesn’t mean that your ability to be a moral being should become static.”