Military Families Speak Out in the Poor People’s Campaign!
Many of us in MFSO were very heartened and encouraged to see how MFSO, Veterans for Peace, and About Face ( IVAW), collaborated to support the Poor People’s Campaign, Phase 1, last May and June. The National Poor People’s Campaign is a call for moral revival that supports Dr. King’s vision to oppose the 4 […]
Read MoreMFSO Member’s Concerns about Pathway Home Began Long Before Shooting
My son was featured in a story done about Pathway Home in the Mercury News on 2/10/2011. My son was an inpatient at Pathway Home and at that time the founder and director was Fred Gusman. I started having concerns about the program and contacted them and requested to talk to Fred Gusman. He never returned my […]
Read MoreFrom a Mom on Veterans Day
Tomorrow is Veterans Day and many thoughts are racing through my mind. You’d think after having a son in the military for over 20 years and he being currently deployed to the Persian Gulf (and that’s after five previous deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan), that I would be a little jaded right now about Veterans Day. […]
Read MoreAfghanistan: The Forgotten War
By Mary Hladky, Military Families Speak Out October 5, 2017 — Watching the PBS series on Vietnam is a graphic reminder of the horrors of war. Unfortunately, one of the few things the U.S. government learned from Vietnam was how to hide the horrors of the Afghanistan war from public view as much as possible, to […]
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