Category: Profiles in Resistance

Dale was sentenced to four months in prison and a bad conduct discharge. His wife’s charged of “enticing and harboring a deserter” was later dropped.

It is also my belief that if a soldier is refusing an order he knows to be wrong, it is not right for him to face persecution for it.

Her CO status was denied in November 2003, but she was placed in the Inactive Ready Reserve and did not have to go to Iraq. She has spoken at Conscientious Objector and antiwar gatherings around the country.

He served a year as a medic in Iraq and received the Army Commendation Medal for exceedingly meritorious service while under fire.

I’m standing up for what I believe in,” he says. He became an antiwar activist, speaking out on campuses and communities and in the Michael Moore film “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

I started talking to soldiers that had already gone over there and come back, infantry men and tank drivers and stuff like that, and the stories that they were giving me were just – they were horrifying.