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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 01:32 AM
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Ron Ridenhour Awards ...must read!!!
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Ron Ridenhour was a Vietnam Veteran who exposed My Lai. He died suddenly in 1998.

The Ron Ridenhour Awards
fostering the spirit of courage and truth-telling.

These are the 20003 Winners

September 5, 2003
New York – Former US diplomat to Iraq Joseph Wilson, who has publicly challenged the Bush Administration’s claim that Iraq was shopping for uranium in Africa, is one of three inaugural winners of the Ron Ridenhour Awards, created this year by the Fertel Foundation and The Nation Institute in honor of My Lai Massacre whistleblower, Ron Ridenhour. The two other winners are Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, and investigative journalist Deborah Scroggins, whose 2002 book Emma’s War is an in-depth look at Sudan’s long-running civil conflicts.
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http://www.fertel.com/causes/ridenhour_award/winners_finals.htm
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