Author: Jeff Paterson

USMC 1st Lt Jacob Bridge, Conscientious Objector

USMC 1st Lt Jacob Bridge, Conscientious Objector

February 4, 2015

Seeing the planes going into the Twin Towers made me feel like the planes were crashing into my heart when they went into the building. “I couldn’t understand why they would do that. When it was said that they hated our freedom, it was all I needed to hear.” Jake graduated from High School in 2007 and attended the University of Colorado in Boulder. There, he enrolled in Naval ROTC. When he graduated from college, in 2011, he also graduated as the Honor Graduate in the Commissioning Class at NROTC at CU, Boulder.

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An American sniper

February 2, 2015

That’s why it’s necessary to keep both eyes open. This way you have some ability to track targets and establish 360 degrees of awareness.

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Conscientious Objection and Secularism

January 8, 2015

Some of the more common threads we see among these COs are an adoption of a vegan diet and gravitation toward Libertarianism that lead them to conclude that war is wrong.

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Military and gov’t agents who refused to torture

December 15, 2014

By the American Civil Liberties Union. December 15, 2014 We will never know the names of so many of the CIA officers who spoke out against torture. They were among the brave men and women throughout the government who challenged...

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