Phil Donahue Making Anti-War Feature

Source: IMDBFormer talk-show host Phil Donahue is using his own financial resources to produce a feature-length documentary, Body of War, about Tomas Young, who enlisted in the Army the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and was wounded in Baghdad shortly thereafter, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. In an interview appearing in Meadow's Country Capitalist, Donohue indicated that he hopes that the film will have a theatrical release. "I've never done this before," he added. "Will it be good enough for the 'plexes and is that the best way to go? I don't now." Donohue said that he plans to give all profits to the film to Young. "This film tells the story about whom we have put in harm's way. The next time someone wants to land on an aircraft carrier, I want him to meet Tomas Young -- the real patriot. ... If anyone deserves to be heard, it's Tomas Young -- he has paid the price and we have a responsibility to listen to him."
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Battling on 2 fronts, mother charged as AWOL

Source: Boston GlobeIn a rare legal clash pitting a mother against the US military, Specialist Lisa Hayes of the New Hampshire National Guard surrendered yesterday to Army authorities after being charged as a deserter for refusing to fight in Iraq until a custody case involving her 7-year-old daughter was resolved.The dispute, among the first of its kind in New England, underscores the tremendous strain the Iraq war has placed on the Guard and the nation's all-volunteer military, whose members often leave behind needy families and tumultuous personal lives as their combat tours are repeatedly extended.In February, Hayes received emergency leave from her second deployment to Iraq after an alleged domestic violence incident at her former husband's house, where her daughter, Brystal Knight, was staying. As the resulting custody case moved slowly through the courts, the military ordered her back to Iraq.Hayes didn't go."I'm really sad that the military is doing this to me -- and not only me, but my daughter," she said in a telephone interview from Fort Dix, N.J., where she turned herself in yesterday, daughter in tow. "I do deserve to be treated humanely, and that has not happened."

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TELL THE US MILITARY AND GEORGIE, DICK AND CO THEY SUCK BIG TIME, THE LOSERS

SURVEY: Do you think Lisa Hayes should be punished for this?