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“I had a huge awakening seeing the war as it truly is: people losing their lives for greed of a nation, and the effects on the soldiers who come back with new problems such as nightmares, anxieties, depression, anger, alcohol abuse, missing limbs and scars from burns. Some don’t come back at all.”
Rivera was troubled by a two-year-old Iraqi girl who came to the base with her family to claim compensation after a bombing by US forces. “She was just petrified,” Rivera explained. “She was crying, but there was no sound, just tears flowing out of her eyes. She was shaking. I have no idea what had happened in her little life. All I know is I wasn’t seeing her: I was seeing my own little girl. I could imagine my daughter being one of those kids throwing rocks at soldiers, because maybe someone she loved had been killed. That Iraqi girl haunts my soul.”
Originally posted by gosseyn
(made a search and didn't find this posted)
“I had a huge awakening seeing the war as it truly is: people losing their lives for greed of a nation, and the effects on the soldiers who come back with new problems such as nightmares, anxieties, depression, anger, alcohol abuse, missing limbs and scars from burns. Some don’t come back at all.”
Rivera was troubled by a two-year-old Iraqi girl who came to the base with her family to claim compensation after a bombing by US forces. “She was just petrified,” Rivera explained. “She was crying, but there was no sound, just tears flowing out of her eyes. She was shaking. I have no idea what had happened in her little life. All I know is I wasn’t seeing her: I was seeing my own little girl. I could imagine my daughter being one of those kids throwing rocks at soldiers, because maybe someone she loved had been killed. That Iraqi girl haunts my soul.”
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Originally posted by Liquesence
[iwhether a volunteer or not.
This so-called Christian chaplain could have advised her that there was a regulation, AR 600-43, that gave her the right to petition to be classified a conscientious objector. He chose not to do the Christian thing.
Since she was never advised of her rights as a conscientious objector, she believed that she had no options but to return to Iraq or to emigrate to Canada. Rivera and her husband and two children fled to Canada in February, 2007, settling in Toronto.
Originally posted by VoidHawk
And what about her four (now motherless) children, what good has this sentence done them!
What good has this sentence done anyone?
Originally posted by VoidHawk
And what about her four (now motherless) children, what good has this sentence done them!
What good has this sentence done anyone?
Originally posted by crazyewok
Originally posted by Liquesence
[iwhether a volunteer or not.
If she was a conscript then yes I would 100% support her like I 100% any vietnam draft dodgers as conscription should only be used (at least in a front line role) if the country itself is at risk.
Originally posted by sonnny1
Originally posted by VoidHawk
And what about her four (now motherless) children, what good has this sentence done them!
What good has this sentence done anyone?
She didn't think of the consequences, did she?