Below is a letter that I sent to the Newport News-Times and the Newport Chamber of Commerce addressing the issue of the exclusion of Veterans for Peace and other veterans groups at the recent “Loyalty Day Parade.” Please sign the petition below.
Annette
To Whom it May Concern:
I have read several reports about your recent “Loyalty Day” […]

April 23 2007
I am the mother of an active duty Sgt. who has done
two tours in Iraq as a Combat engineer. Due to his
current status, I have been requested to limit my
testimony to proposing adjustments to Senate Memorial
1, which I have attached. I am able to state for the
record that the extensions of duty have […]

Testimony on SM1, SJM6, SJM9, HJM9, related to the Iraq War

by Sean Cruz
April 23, 2007
Madame Chair, members of the Committee, for the record my name is Sean Cruz.
I do not intend to read all of my written testimony, which I have provided to the Committee. I would like to provide some foundational information and then […]

The love for our sons and our nation has driven the two of us, two ordinary mothers, to extraordinary lengths. We’re the mothers of sons who right now are walking the streets of Baghdad, bravely and honorably serving their country.

You may have seen us sometime, standing at the Sunnyside Road overpass on Interstate 205, holding […]

Maggie Pondolfino spoke at the Portland Peace Rally on Sunday, March 18, standing with many members of Military Families Speak Out Oregon.
Her speech is available on Google Video and PDXPeace.org.
Photo highlights and video from the Portland Peace Rally can also be found at pdxpeace.org.

The comments below were made at the March 17 peace rally at the Federal Building in Eugene by Adele Kubein of Military Families Speak Out - Oregon. Kubein, who lives in Corvallis, teaches at OSU. Her daughter Makesha joined the National Guard in 1999 and was trained as an engineer.
My daughter was permanently disabled in […]

In Conflict: Iraq Veterans Speak Out on Duty, Loss, and the Fight to Stay Alive. By Yvonne Latty, 2006. PolyPointPress, Sausalito, CA.
The American Military, including the National Guard and reserves, have become an American Foreign Legion deployed like a 911 force all over the world. In this book Latty interviews twenty five soldiers who have […]

Adele Kubein of MFSO Oregon spoke on the California Bay Area station KPFA’s program ‘Countdown 2006!’ on Monday on the topic of the November Elections.
Listen to the radio archive here on kpfa.org

My name is Adele Kubein; I am a member of Military Families Speak Out, and the mother of a twenty-six year old veteran of the Iraq War. My daughter served in Mosul for ten months and was injured and medevac’d out of Iraq in January of 2004.
The window of opportunity for our troops to bring […]

June 6, 2006
Dear Governor Kulongoski:
I would like to thank you for attending and speaking at the memorial service for my nephew, PFC William Ramirez who was killed in action in Baghdad, February 11, 2004. Your care and sympathy were evident as well as your sincere understanding for exactly what William suffered and sacrificed.
We watched […]