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Warriors for Peace

Publié le 22 juin 2009 par Duke

Tout est dit dans le titre... Belle initiative du photographe Jon Orlando et des vétérans US.

“I joined the army to protect my family,” says Floyd Holt. He deployed to Iraq in 2005 in full support of the war and it’s mission. With his wife at home pregnant with their first son, he felt he was doing what needed to be done. However, “after seeing the death and destruction of Iraqi families, it made me question what I was really doing there and eventually I realized that to really protect my family and country I needed to end my part in this illegal and unjust war.” Floyd got his tattoo after returning from Iraq while he was still enlisted, to remind himself and others that the army, the death and destruction that it represented could not take his soul and his humanity from him. Floyd Holt, Iraq War Veteran from Brooklyn, CT.

After three months in Iraq, the vehicle Zack was traveling in was blown up by an improvised explosive device. He was sent back to the states for several months to recover from his injuries and then voluntarily redeployed to Iraq for the remainder of his tour. “I went back thinking that maybe we were going to do some good. But it continued, day in day out, countless pointless missions… It was a lost cause, we went over there, we participated in things we probably shouldn’t have participated in, we made choices we’ll have to live with forever and then we get on a plane and come back here and nothing is ever said about it…” Zack Choate, Iraq War Veteran from Atlanta GA

While serving as a Calvary sniper in Iraq, Garett Reppenhagen began speaking out against the war on a blog he co-authored called ‘Fight To Survive,” the first anti-war blog from an enlisted soldier. He hasn’t stopped since. He has been amazingly active in his efforts to enlist more veterans and active duty soldiers to resist the war. He has spoken at and helped organize a large number of rallies and events, and has been interviewed on both radio and T.V numerous times. He is grounded in his courage to say what he believes needs to be said- “As an ex- United States cavalry sniper… my goals are to stir the peaceful revolution into reality and share my experiences by means of any expression I can master.” Garett Reppenhagen, Iraq war veteran from Manitou Springs, CO.

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