On May 29th, residents from throughout the Bay Area decided to forego Memorial Day barbecues and parades to find out from Iraqi war veterans, a mother of a slain son, and a military surgeon about the true cost to human life taking place daily in Iraq. More than 300 people gathered in the auditorium at the Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley on Sunday for a program entitled “Military Voices Against Endless War”. Among those who spoke were Stephen Funk, the first military resister to the current war; Camilo Mejia, the first Iraqi War veteran to resist; Tim Goodrich, a co-founder of Iraq Veterans Against the War; Aidan Delgado, who was stationed at Abu Ghraib; Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq; and Dr. Gene Bolles, a neurosurgeon who treated wounded soldiers at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.

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