GI Special 4I21: The Petition #1 - September 21, 2006

Thomas F. Barton

On September 15th, members of the Military Project and Veterans For Peace organized another evening of outreach to soldiers of an Army National Guard unit in the New York City area which includes many veterans of combat in Iraq.

The big success of the evening was a new petition, drafted by a New York Guard member, demanding that Congress make restitution for the pay cut that huge numbers of Guard members and reservists take when they get called up to active duty and lose the income from their civilian jobs.

As they took the petitions, Guard members said over and over that it was about time something was done to right this wrong.

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