Bronze star recipient Sgt Nils Aron Andersson, combat veteran turned recruiter, originally from Oregon commits suicide. Married only 24 hours earlier, his new wife follows him and commits suicide a day later.
“He was morally opposed to putting more young men into that situation, where they could be injured or killed or see the things he’d seen,” Maxey said.
His superiors repeatedly criticized him for failing to meet his goal of signing two new recruits a month and assigned him five-page essays or extra duty as punishment, she said. In February 2006, he was passed up for promotion to staff sergeant.
“It wasn’t that he was lazy or not working. It’s just that he was not getting recruits and being punished for it, constantly,” she said. “It was just not the job for him.”
Yes! What are they signifying when they give a thumbs down to peace? I think a good sign might be ‘support the warrior, not the war’
What do you think?
And so many drivers look at the Veterans For Peace flags on Wed. in Coquille and flip them off, scream and call them cowards, or scream that the troops are fighting for our right to protest, or flip us the bird , or thumbs down, or overwhelmingly ignore us.
Maybe they will think about this story before they do so.
And the flag-wavers across the street have a big sign that says: SUPPORT OUR TROOPS.
All the way to their deaths I suppose.
I am always surprised at the female population who drives by shaking their heads no to us.
Mothers and Grandmothers, wives and sisters, angry at peace flags. As a woman and as a mother I will never understand that.