Veterans for Peace tell story upon story of people who turn increasingly toward making peace, because, while they were making war, they came to see that much of what is said and believed about military engagement is not true.
Barry Ladendorf is a veteran of the VietNam War. But by the time he was into his third tour of duty, on a naval ship stationed off the coast, he no longer believed that the war was succeeding nor that it was making the world safe for democracy. The U.S. government persisted in claiming both.
On this Common Good Podcast, Barry tells his story of transformation and how, upon retiring from a legal career, he "enlisted" in San Diego Veterans for Peace. Today he speaks most articulately to how he and other veterans join together in a powerful mission of bending our worldviews, governments, and economies to the sure knowledge that peace generates not only far more jobs than does the military industrial complex, but builds a safer, stronger, more democratic, more ecological, and happier world.
In this final TCGP episode of 2012, cohosts Jerry Iversen and Lee Van Ham add some quick thoughts of their own about the season, especially how peace is a far bigger story than the warmaking of superpowers old and new.
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Links and Mostly Free Resources Related to This EpisodeSOA Watch (School of the Americas/School of the Assassins)
Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quaker lobby)
Lee’s Unwrapping Christmas in a Different Paradigm AND The Unholy Family of Christmas — readings for the weeks before or week after Christmas
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Our Alternate Christmas Celebration
The Rewards of Changing Gift-Giving Patterns
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