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WHAT ARE THE COSTS OF WAR?

Guests: Members of Military Families Speak Out

Mike is in conversation with the co-founder and other members of Military Families Speak Out sharing their own stories.

Nancy Lessin is a co-founder of Military Families Speak Out, an organization of military families that began in the fall of 2002 with two military families speaking out to prevent a U.S. invasion of Iraq. Her stepson served with the Marines and was in Iraq during the U.S. invasion in 2003. Within several years of its founding, Military Families Speak Out became the largest organization of military families speaking out against a war in the history of the country, with over 4,000 military families speaking out to end the U.S. occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, bring the troops home, take care of them when they get there, and never send our troops to unjustifiable wars and military misadventures again.

Mary Hladky’s son, Ryan, was an Army Infantry Officer. Ryan served in Zahri District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan for 13 months at the height of President Obama’s surge. His battalion was sent right into the heart of the fight suffering many deaths and injuries. Ryan left the Army in 2013. In 2008 Mary joined Military Families Speak Out (MFSO), which is a United for Peace & Justice (UFPJ) member group. She began her work with United for Peace and Justice in 2010 as a member of the Afghanistan Working Group.  She has been a member of the UFPJ Coordinating Committee since 2012. In her retirement years, Mary now chooses to focus the bulk of her time on the serious and complex issues facing our country and world. She works at the national level through Military Families Speak Out and UFPJ.  Locally, Mary works with PeaceWorks, to promote a world of peace without war and its weapons including nuclear weapons. 

Billie Winner-Davis, a retired Social Worker with more than 26 years of experience at Child Protective Services in South Texas, has dedicated her career to helping others, and has been on the MFSO Board for about 3 years. Billie is proud of her children and their partners/spouses who have served in the Air Force, Navy, Army, and Marines. Currently, her grandson Aiden, is serving in the US Navy and is completing training as a corpsman. Billie is probably best known as the mother of Reality Winner, US Air Force Veteran and Whistleblower, who was imprisoned during Trump’s first term for releasing a classified document outlining the Russian attacks on our 2016 presidential election.

Laurie Loving of Davis CA, is the mother of an Iraq War veteran.  She and her husband Russell Loving co-founded the northern CA chapter of MFSO when her son deployed to Mosul in 2005.  Being so close to the capital, their chapter met with members of Congress, organized protests and press conferences and, along with the MFSO southern and Bay Area chapters, were arrested several times trying to end the illegal and immoral wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now we are regrouping to stop the insanity of yet another unsanctioned war in Iran.  As the parents, grandparents, siblings and other family members of those serving, being critically injured and in over 7000 families, killed, MFSO members are in the unique position to to speak to the true cost of war 

About Military Families Speak Out

Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) is an organization of military families opposed to immoral and unjustifiable wars and military actions with loved ones who have served in the U.S. military since 9-11. MFSO was formed in 2002 by two military families speaking out to prevent a U.S. invasion of Iraq. Twenty-four years later we are speaking out to end the war on Iran, the bombing of fishing boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, the deployment of troops to U.S. cities and towns in support of ICE actions, and other misuses of the military that have nothing to do with protection of country and Constitution. 

Military Families Speak Out
P.O. Box 4193
Seal Beach, CA 90740

Phone: 562-833-8035 or 562-522-4241
E-mails: mfso@mfso.org or mfso-oc@earthlink.net

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