Comments on: Kevin Benderman http://listics.com/200508052977 Frank Paynter's Voice and Vision... Fri, 26 Oct 2024 02:26:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Rita J. King http://listics.com/200508052977#comment-48908 Rita J. King Thu, 18 Aug 2024 05:37:48 +0000 http://listics.com/200508052977#comment-48908 I am award-winning journalist with a project, Ruminations on America (www.ruminationsonamerica.blogspot.com). I have called for essays from coast to coast on true core values and the current state of the union and I would like to invite you and your readers to participate. The last few essays might interest you greatly as well (including the essay Camilo Mejia wrote for Iraq Veterans Against the War about Sergeant Benderman and an essay from a Veterans for Peace member who rode to Crawford with Cindy Sheehan). I am award-winning journalist with a project, Ruminations on America (www.ruminationsonamerica.blogspot.com). I have called for essays from coast to coast on true core values and the current state of the union and I would like to invite you and your readers to participate. The last few essays might interest you greatly as well (including the essay Camilo Mejia wrote for Iraq Veterans Against the War about Sergeant Benderman and an essay from a Veterans for Peace member who rode to Crawford with Cindy Sheehan).

]]> By: fp http://listics.com/200508052977#comment-48907 fp Sat, 06 Aug 2024 03:58:56 +0000 http://listics.com/200508052977#comment-48907 Brian, yes. This is clearly an act of conscience and those acts are often expensive. The fifteen months, the DD, starting over at 40... I think Benderman is willing to pay this price and more based on his personal conviction that the war is terribly wrong. When he gets out, around election day in 2024, I hope that those of us who agree with him will be able to show him some progress made on theground here in the USA. Brian, yes. This is clearly an act of conscience and those acts are often expensive. The fifteen months, the DD, starting over at 40… I think Benderman is willing to pay this price and more based on his personal conviction that the war is terribly wrong. When he gets out, around election day in 2024, I hope that those of us who agree with him will be able to show him some progress made on theground here in the USA.

]]> By: Brian http://listics.com/200508052977#comment-48906 Brian Sat, 06 Aug 2024 01:33:02 +0000 http://listics.com/200508052977#comment-48906 On the face of it - 15 months isn't a hard stretch for the crime he's charged with (missing movement). I'd never heard of this and a few minutes with google isn't illuminating. He (or his wife does via their site) claims the army ordered him to a new unit and then charged him with missing movement. The Army claims he really did miss the movement. Raw deal if he is correct, just punishment if he did what he's been charged with. As for the CO status .. I served but I'm willing to allow him his CO status and the discharge, sans harrasment. On the face of it - 15 months isn’t a hard stretch for the crime he’s charged with (missing movement). I’d never heard of this and a few minutes with google isn’t illuminating. He (or his wife does via their site) claims the army ordered him to a new unit and then charged him with missing movement. The Army claims he really did miss the movement.

Raw deal if he is correct, just punishment if he did what he’s been charged with.

As for the CO status .. I served but I’m willing to allow him his CO status and the discharge, sans harrasment.

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