19-year-old Marine private from Tuba City, Arizona discharged as a conscientious objector January 2007. Ronnie, a Navajo, realized that his newfound calling as a medicine man made it impossible to deploy to Iraq without spiritually harming himself and his community. “I’m really relieved my voice has been heard. There was a lot of grief and heartache before I was heard.”
Why Donate?
“As an Army veteran, I’m so glad there’s an organization like Courage to Resist that really cares about people in the military and brings the whole community together in support of the heroes that follow the call of conscience and resist war…”
-Aimee Allison, 1991 Gulf War objector, community organizer
