Meet the Bring Them Home Now!
coordinating committee:

Ellen Barfield, from Baltimore, MD, served as a heavy equipment mechanic in the US Army from 1977 to 1981 including deployment in South Korea in 1980 when South Korean Special Forces massacred hundreds of citizens who were protesting a coup. The US denied any knowledge of the massacre, which Ellen found hard to believe. She slowly came to distrust her government. She has been a full-time peace and justice activist since 1988, when she joined Veterans for Peace, where she now serves as Vice President. She has traveled to Iraq with peace delegations four times.

David Cline served in Vietnam in 1967 as a rifleman with the 25th Infantry Division. He was awarded three Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star, CIB and other medals. He is also disabled from the wounds he received. He was an early member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and is currently a VVAW national coordinator. He is a former officer of Transport Workers Union Local 1400 in New Jersey. David is the president of Veterans For Peace, and president of the Jersey City Vietnam Veterans Memorial Committee.

Anita Cole chairs the interim Board of Directors for Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), a group of veterans who have served since September 11th, 2001 in the "Global War on Terrorism," and who are committed to saving lives and ending the violence in Iraq by an immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces. Anita received an honorable discharge as a conscientious objector (CO) in late January 2002, after almost four years in the Army as a Chinese language interrogator. She volunteers on the GI Rights Hotline and is a frequent public speaker and contributor to the media on a broad range of GI Rights, conscientious objector and gender related issues.

Stan Goff, of Raleigh, N.C., began his military career in the U.S. Army in 1970 and retired as a Special Forces Master Sergeant in 1996. He served in Ranger, Airborne and Special Forces counter-terrorist units, in eight conflict areas. He has since become a respected commentator on military matters and an outspoken critic of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. He is the author of Hideous Dream and Full Spectrum Disorder (both from Soft Skull Press). Stan's son Jessie serves in the U.S. Army and has just been deployed to Iraq.

Marti Hiken was the former co-director of the Military Law Project in 1970 with Luke Hiken next to Fort Ord, California. She and Luke wrote "Fight Back – A Manual for Discharge" in 1971. She was executive director of the NLG Prison Law Project and the former associate director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. She has worked as a paralegal on many military cases. Ms. Hiken' most recent article was published in the Guild Practioner, "Military Re-organization: NORTHCOM – The New Designer Military" (Vol. 59, Number 4, Fall 2002).

Nancy Lessin and Charley Richardson are co-founders of Military Families Speak Out, an organization of families opposed to the U.S. invasion and now the occupation of Iraq, all of whom have loved ones in the military. Their son Joe is a Marine who was deployed in August 2002, and who returned from Iraq on Memorial Day 2003. Nancy and Charley live in the Boston area and are both active in the labor movement.

Michael T. McPhearson, a native of Fayetteville, NC, was a field artillery officer of the 24th Mechanized Infantry Division during Desert Shield/Desert Storm. His military career includes 6 years of reserve service and 5 years active duty service. Now living in Bloomfield, N.J. and a member of Veterans For Peace, Michael works as an activist and facilitator to help bring about social and economic justice. He is the father of an nineteen-year-old son attending basic training in the Army.

Steve Morse is GI Rights Program Coordinator at the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors. He works with the GI Rights Hotline and provides training, resources, and support to organizations across the country who are part of the GI Rights Network. After being a conscientious objector, he joined the Army in 1969 to be part of GI resistance. He was in Vietnam and also in stateside stockades for distributing dissident literature. He has long been active in Veteran Speakers' Alliance and Veterans for Peace in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a parent, and has been a tradesman, shop steward and teacher.

Dennis O'Neil is an associate member of Veterans For Peace and a postal worker from NYC. During the US Postal anthrax crisis of 2001 (caused by a biological weapon bred at a US Army facility), the machines he works on were contaminated. A fellow union member, Thomas Morris, Jr. of Washington, DC, died of anthrax after being assured by postal management that there was no danger. Morris's last words were "I have a tendency not to believe these people..." That sums up how Dennis feels about the Bush administration.

Lou Plummer's son Petty Officer 3rd Class Drew Plummer was convicted by the Navy of disloyalty for criticizing the war . Lou was in the Army National Guard from 1983 to 1989. He is a member of Military Families Speak Out and Veterans for Peace. He was a primary organizer of the 2004 and 2005 Iraq Invasion Anniversary demonstrations in his home town, Fayetteville, NC, home of Ft. Bragg and the Army's 82nd Airborne Division.

Michael Uhl, PhD, served in Vietnam as a 1st Lieutenant, leading a combat intelligence team with the 11th Infantry Brigade, based in Quang Ngai Province (I Corps). He became active in the anti-Vietnam War movement in 1969, and testified about U.S. war crimes in Vietnam. Michael is co-founder of Citizen Soldier, and now works as a professional writer. With Tod Ensign, he wrote G.I. Guinea Pigs: How the Pentagon Exposed Our Troops to Dangers More Deadly Than War, the first national expose on Agent Orange. He is a charter member of Veterans For Peace (Chapter 001, Maine), and belongs to both the DAV and VFW as well.