truthout - Dissent of an Officer

t r u t h o u t | 02.03

Dissent of an Officer
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020307A.shtml
Carolyn Ho was at her apartment that overlooks Kaneohe Bay on the windward side of Oahu, on another enviable evening of silk-shirt temperatures, when the phone rang. It was New Year's Day 2006. Her son, Ehren, was calling from Fort Lewis, near Tacoma, Washington, where he was stationed as an artillery officer in the US Army. She assumed he was calling to wish her a happy New Year. He had something else on his mind. He told her he was opposed to the war in Iraq and was going to refuse to deploy there.