Word: sheehans
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...absolutely. Marriage should be about loving, supportive, nurturing relationships, and such relationships are not dependent on gender. Gay marriages will only strengthen and enrich the social concept of marriage. Tony Sheehan Madison...
...band. Convinced of an imminent strike, however, Weyand kept his troops close to Saigon, and officers in his camp placed bets on the timing. All wagered that the strike would start between midnight and 5 a.m. on Jan. 31, and officers bet on 15-minute intervals, according to Neil Sheehan's A Bright Shining Lie. Saigon came under fire at about...
After returning from the front, Sheehan-Miles left the Army and helped start the Gulf War Resource Center in Silver Spring, Md., one of the first groups to call attention to the plight of Gulf War veterans who have suffered from illnesses since returning home...
...Sheehan-Miles also became a critic of U.N. sanctions against Iraq. And since Bush began talking about another war, Sheehan-Miles has tried to organize opposition to it among fellow Gulf War vets. He says he will reluctantly support a war if it comes, but he is embarrassed that the Administration has been so aggressive in pushing for it. "The Administration seems to be grabbing for a reason," he says. "My biggest concern is that we seem to think...everybody in Iraq will wave a U.S. flag and say thanks for liberating us. But we've encouraged more hostility...
Some of the antiwar vets plan to attend rallies in Washington this week, hoping to bring more Gulf War veterans to the cause. But like the rest of the antiwar activists, Sheehan-Miles has plenty of persuading to do. In late September, he set up an antiwar website veteransforcommonsense.org and sent out e-mail messages to all the veterans he knew, encouraging them to sign a statement that calls on the White House to get U.N. Security Council authorization before mounting an invasion. So far, about 300 vets have signed on. --Reported by Perry Bacon Jr./Washington, Sarah Sturmon Dale/Minneapolis...