Smedley D. Butler Brigade Chapter 9 Veterans For Peace
Sow Justice, Reap Peace
On March
13-16, 2008 a historic event, Winter Soldier: Iraq
and Afghanistan, was held in Silver Spring MD.
Dozens of Iraq veterans, members of Iraq Veterans
Against The War (IVAW) testified about what is
really happening in Iraq and Afghanistan and its
effect on the Iraqi people and on their own mental
health. Military families also testified.
The event got little mainstream press attention. Only Democracy Now carried long reports on four successive days. The full DN shows can be seen at the following links: March 14, March 17, March 18, March 19. Other videos can be seen at IVAW’s website here.
Since not everyone has time to view the many hours of testimony, we have compiled from these videos a 53 minute video of the testimony of Jon Turner, Joyce and Kevin Lucey, and Kristofer Goldsmith — some of the most emotional and compelling testimony of the weekend.
The videos require Flash. You can view the video here in your web browser (click the play button and be patient and in a few seconds it will start playing). If you view the video in your web browser you will need a fast internet connection, and if it stutters and stops then pause it and let a bit load and then play again. If you use the link above, you will not be able to save it to your disk. If you want to download a QuickTime .mov version of this to your disk and save it to view later, right click (PC) or CNTL click (Mac) here or to get a .mp4 version here. Be patient as the file is 275 MBytes and will take about 30 minutes to download even with a fast internet connection.
The event got little mainstream press attention. Only Democracy Now carried long reports on four successive days. The full DN shows can be seen at the following links: March 14, March 17, March 18, March 19. Other videos can be seen at IVAW’s website here.
Since not everyone has time to view the many hours of testimony, we have compiled from these videos a 53 minute video of the testimony of Jon Turner, Joyce and Kevin Lucey, and Kristofer Goldsmith — some of the most emotional and compelling testimony of the weekend.
The videos require Flash. You can view the video here in your web browser (click the play button and be patient and in a few seconds it will start playing). If you view the video in your web browser you will need a fast internet connection, and if it stutters and stops then pause it and let a bit load and then play again. If you use the link above, you will not be able to save it to your disk. If you want to download a QuickTime .mov version of this to your disk and save it to view later, right click (PC) or CNTL click (Mac) here or to get a .mp4 version here. Be patient as the file is 275 MBytes and will take about 30 minutes to download even with a fast internet connection.