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Howard Zinn invites you to: A House Party Fundraiser for Iraq Veterans Against The War Winter Soldier Hearings Home of Sev and Louise Bruyn 48 Glenwood Ave. Newton Center 617–332–1764 Sunday, January 27 at 3 PM “These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country” — Thomas Paine This quote inspired the name for the Winter Soldier Investigation (WSI) in 1971 of war crimes in Vietnam, for it is the Winter Soldier who is the true patriot. Vietnam Veterans Against The War (VVAW)...

The Bush administration's continued war on Iraq continues to anger those who ought to be its constituents. San Diego 10News reports that dead soldiers are being shipped freight to avoid publicity and perhaps to save costs. As 10News puts it: "Dead heroes are supposed to come home with their coffins draped with the American flag - greeted by a color guard. But in reality, many are arriving as freight on commercial airliners - stuffed in the belly of a plane with suitcases and other cargo." The story tells of John Holley and his wife, Stacey, who discovered that the body...