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Iraq Against the War marching in Boston, October 2007. Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) is an advocacy group founded in 2004 of formerly active-duty United States military personnel, Iraq War veterans, Afghanistan War veterans, and other veterans who have served since the September 11, 2001 attacks; who were opposed to the U.S. military invasion and occupation in Iraq from 2003 to 2011.
iava.org. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), is a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) veterans organization founded by Paul Rieckhoff, an American writer, social entrepreneur, advocate, activist and veteran of the United States Army and the Iraq War. He served as an Army First Lieutenant and infantry rifle platoon leader in Iraq from 2003 ...
Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan. Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan was an event at which more than 200 U.S. military veterans and active duty soldiers, [1] as well as Iraqi and Afghan civilians, [2] provided accounts of their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. The event was inspired by the Winter Soldier Investigation of 1971.
Veterans for Peace logo. Veterans for Peace is an organization founded in 1985. Initially made up of US military veterans of World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War - later including veterans of the Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan and the Iraq War - as well as peacetime veterans and non-veterans, it has since spread overseas and has an active offshoot in the United Kingdom (which has ...
Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) is an American tax-exempt non-profit organization and corporation founded in 1967 to oppose the United States policy and participation in the Vietnam War. VVAW is a national veterans ' organization that campaigns for peace , justice , and the rights of all United States military veterans.
August 31, 2024 at 4:00 AM. Three years after the deaths of 13 American service members at Abbey Gate during the hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan, veterans are voicing their opinions about the ...
Task Force Pineapple was founded on 15 August 2021 by Scott Mann, a retired Green Beret, [3] to rescue an Afghan commando he had served with. [4] The commando was receiving death threats from the Taliban for having served alongside SEAL Team Six for a dozen years. [5] After rescuing the commando and his family of six, the group began planning ...
Names. This twenty-year armed conflict (2001–2021) is referred to as the War in Afghanistan[93]in order to distinguish it from the country's various other wars,[94]notably the ongoing Afghan conflictof which it was a part,[95]and the Soviet–Afghan War.