new issue of Traveling Soldier: "I saw the destroyed villages, I saw lives destroyed by what happened there"

new issue of Traveling Soldier features:

1. "I saw the destroyed villages, I saw lives destroyed by what happened
there": interview with USMC LCPL Mike Hoffman, who was in the invasion of
Iraq and is now a member for Veterans for Peace and the Campus Antiwar
Network in Philadelphia about his experiences there and the prospects of
more GIs opposing the occupation of Iraq.
http://www.traveling-soldier.org/4.04.hoffman.php

2. Lou Plummer reports on the military families, vets, and GIs who marched
at Ft. Bragg on March 20th.
http://www.traveling-soldier.org/4.04.march20.php

3. Larry Syverson reports on the military families' march on the White
House, Walter Reed Medical Center where most of the wounded from Iraq are
sent and Dover Air Force Base, where Bush has banned any coverage of the
returning dead from Iraq.
http://www.traveling-soldier.org/4.04.weekend.php

4. What they won't tell you about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -
Hospital worker Tom Barton explains that one of the best ways for
returning GIs to cope with PTSD is through anti-war activism.
http://www.traveling-soldier.org/4.04.ptsd.php

5. Wounded soldier needs your help! The Pentagon has sent a medically
unfit soldier back to the front-lines on patrol in Baghdad. Send an email
to his mother to help get him out of harm's way.
http://www.traveling-soldier.org/4.04.wounded.php

6. The lesser evil in 2004? John Kerry, seen by many as the anti-war
movement's hope, is nothing of the sort. Voting for him isn't the answer -
it's building a movement in the steets, on the campuses, at workplaces,
and amongst veterans and active duty GIs.
http://www.traveling-soldier.org/4.04.kerry.php

7. The story of the first soldier to quit Iraq war, Camilo Mejia, with an
appeal from his mother to support him in his fight for Conscientous
Objector status.
http://www.traveling-soldier.org/4.04.mejia.php

8. A report on Marine morale in Okinawa, Japan
http://www.traveling-soldier.org/4.04.okinawa.php

9. Words from the front-lines, a compilation of what soldiers are saying
about the war in Iraq. http://www.traveling-soldier.org/4.04.words.php

PDF of Issue 5:
http://www.traveling-soldier.org/TS5.pdf
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