A service member's loyalty is first and foremost to the Constitution, and to the President only so long as he obeys the laws of the land. When he begins to consider himself above the law, and is aided and abetted by loyalists and cowards within the executive and legislative branches, it becomes necessary for members of the Armed Forces to challenge his abuse of power by privately and/or publicly exercising their first Amendment rights through appeals to members of Congress, newspaper editorials, demonstrations, etc. This is the right and duty of all service members.

I was asked to write an Op-Ed for the Financial Times as an assignment for my International Relations class. For over an hour I sat uninspired to write anything that fit into their paradigm. Instead I wrote this: I got an A. Then I laughed.

Challenging the established power structure is not in the curriculum of the typical American high school. Therefore, if we are to succeed in spite of our lack of formal training we must approach our challenges systematically and learn from each other and our experiences. The following lessons of my last year of organizing an IVAW chapter are not mine alone, they belong to all of us and I have borrowed a lot from other chapter presidents and organizers from across the country. The goal of this paper is to take the first step towards a systematized approach to building IVAW on a local level.

Will America ever listen to those who serve it?

Reflections on the training/conditioning I received in the Army

These names aren't from Vietnam.

So you support the war! Here is something to read!

I'm sick of the situation our country is in, so called patriots banging the war drum on almost a daily basis, bashing those who disagree and calling them cowards, traitors, communists, etc...

I know I haven't written in a while but I have a little three month old little girl now.

"I wonder how much more should we send into battle knowing that the battle continues well after the war becomes history and so will the men and women who have fought".

I am walking across Japan from Hiroshima to Tokyo right now with Buddhist monks in support of Article Nine of the Japanese constitution, which keeps Japan from engaging in War.