Hiroshima Program August 5, 2007 Tokyo International University in America Tom Merrick Thank you for the opportunity to be with you this evening. I’ve been asked to share my perspective as the parent of a soldier currently deployed in Iraq and also speak to the issue of reducing the expansion of nuclear weapons in the [...]

Army wife and mother battles war — MFSO member’s story in Oregonian With her husband, son and daughter serving in Iraq, Marlene Schaffer wants the fight to end Friday, July 20, 2007 JULIE SULLIVAN The Oregonian Staff An army travels on its stomach. So Chop! Marlene Schaffer attacks vegetables as she grills T-bone steaks for [...]

MFSO in the Los Angeles Times by Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times July 15th, 2007 My nephew is in boot camp. One month into it, I’m still having trouble getting used to the sound of those words. My brother and I tried to talk him out of it more than a year ago at a [...]

MFSO in New York Times by Ian Urbina, New York Times July 15th, 2007 FORT EUSTIS, Va., July 11 — Cpl. April Ponce De Leon describes herself and her husband as “gung-ho marines,” and in two weeks she deploys to Iraq, where her husband has been fighting since March. But she says she stopped believing [...]