Army National Guard Sgt., Indiana native. Signed 8 year contract with National Guard in 2002. Deployed to Iraq and spent 5 months before being granted 2 weeks leave for stress relief. Rather than return, went underground and after 7 months, went to Toronto. Currently seeking refugee status in Canada. “I signed up to defend people and do humanitarian work filling sandbags if there was a hurricane. I should have been in New Orleans, not Iraq.”
Former U.S. soldier seeks refugee status
By Anna Piekarski, Toronto Star. September 2, 2006
“The effectiveness of Courage to Resist is growing, but this cannot continue unless we actively step up to the plate…”
