Two WWII Vets Spearhead Anti-Iraq Campaign

Two WWII Vets Spearhead Anti-Iraq Campaign
Two WWII Vets Spearhead Anti-Iraq Campaign, Fight to Stop Young People From Enlisting in Service
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. Dec 17, 2005 — In 1945, Jay Wenk was a shy Brooklyn boy full of patriotism fed by Life magazine and World War II movies. He signed up and was shipped off at age 18 to fight in Europe.

"I remember riding the first time up to the front and hearing the guns and saying, 'This is exciting!'"

Six decades later, Wenk now fights to stop young people from doing what he did a lifetime ago. He and another World War II era veteran, Joan Keefe, have been arrested twice for distributing anti-enlistment fliers outside a military recruiting center in a mall.

With a round of trespassing charges recently dismissed on technical grounds, they say they'll risk arrest again. At an age when many veterans fade away he's 79 and she's 84 they promise to keep up their anti-Iraq war leafletting.
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1415715

Don't get involved in the KILLING MACHINE

When you are 60 you will be awake with night sweats, nightmares and PTSD

And the VA will fuck you over BIG TIME

THEIR MOTTO


"USED UP---- THROWN AWAY"

I have a feeling another milestone is coming up, when we've been fighting in Iraq as long as it took us to win WWII. lets see, its peal harbor was 12-8-41 and V-J day was 8-15-45 when germany was defeated and Japan surrendered. So three years, 8 months. So in just less than a year, we will reach that milestone...hope its figured out by then!

Technology advancements. IF we had then what we have now, It would have been less than a year probably.

time of a get-out-the-vote DU activist who met a very old (I think 85-90) WW II vet, who, when asked about registering and voting, beamed up at our DUer and said, "Let's get that bastard." And he didn't mean Hitler.

Cheers to Jay Wenk and Joan Keefe!

Good guy