WFHB - Bloomington Community Radio

Host Dave Stewart interviews Mike Ferner, president of Veterans For Peace. Mike discusses his experience as a corpsman in a Navy hospital during the Vietnam war, how seeing the human cost of war caused him to be separated from the Navy as a conscientious objector, and what he has learned from a lifetime in the peace movement.

June 8, 2009

The corporation called General Motors is by NO means needed to provide transportation…GMC was never in the business of providing transportation. It was in the business of making money.

May 27, 2009

Alaska Army National Guard SSgt Michael Manson helps kids climb on a HumVee and handle a M249 Saw gun. Juneau Empire 5-24-09

“Sadly though, it probably doesn’t occur to Staff Sergeant Manson that he might well be grooming potential poster kids for the back door draft and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, if they’re lucky enough to come home.”

Gene Marx
Naval Flight Officer 1969-76, Gulf of Tonkin 1971-72

May 12, 2009

This really is the question upon which everything else will turn — how many bodies are too many?

February 27, 2009

“…if President Obama continues on the course he’s charted, his hopes are guaranteed to founder on the shoals of war. This way lies disaster.”