AltWeeklies Wire
Can a Court Help Former GIs Find Justice at Home?new
From the man's physique and hair, Edward Lynch figured he might be military. Maybe from Fort Carson, the Army base down the road that lately seemed to be churning out a lot of veterans with screws loose. The papers were full of stories about Carson vets killing fellow soldiers.
The Good Soldiernew
When the Army tried to take down Andrew Pogany, it messed with the wrong coward.
Blackwater Isn't the Only Security Contractor With Something to Hidenew
A Denver court case reveals dirty trade secrets from the business of the Iraq War.
A Few Gone Mennew
Marine Corporal Lance Hering didn't want to go back to Iraq -- so he decided to disappear.
Tags: war in iraq, AWOL
Wanted: More Than a Few Good Men and Womennew
A scandal exposed by a Denver high school student made Army recruiters stand down, but now they're working hard to put more boots on the ground.
Tags: Iraq war veterans, Privacy, a bill sponsored by Representative Mike Honda, a California Democrat, all of Colorado and parts of Nebraska, American Friends Service Committee, Montana and Wyoming, pacifists, Quakers, Religious Society of Friends, Sergeant Rodney Shivers, Student Privacy Protection Act, United States Army Recruiting Battalion Denver
An Army of Anyonenew
Young people need a high school diploma to enlist in the Army -- and a few report finding a recruiter willing to help them create one.
Iraq and Rollnew
In the music biz, the question of who survives and who doesn't usually comes down to timing, strategy and luck. In that sense, it's a lot like war -- which the four members of Lucid Dissent, home from Iraq, know all too well.
Tags: war & peace
