American war veterans renounce the wars
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'Life over war': US veterans return medals at NATO summit

By Miranda Leitsinger
msnbc.com

CHICAGO -- Dozens of anti-war veterans tossed their medals onto a Chicago street Sunday near where NATO began its two-day summit, calling them �representations of hate,� �lies� and �cheap tokens,� and with some making emotional pleas for forgiveness from the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.

With many dressed in military fatigues, they had filed through the streets in formation, chanting "N-A-T-O, NATO has got to go," and �No NATO, no war, we don't work for you no more,� leading about 2,000 protesters on a 2.5-mile march.

After �retiring� an American flag they carried through the streets and giving it to a woman whose soldier son committed suicide, they began hurtling their war service medals into the air -- a rare form of protest that was last done on a large scale by 900 Vietnam veterans in 1971.

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Protests and the NATO Summit in Chicago


What's going on in Chicago?

As the war machine visited Chicago yesterday, American war veterans
renounced the wars they fought in and threw their medals in the
direction of the summit.

Protesters, including the children of Afghan refugees, have come
from all over the world to voice their opposition to the death and
destruction that NATO forces bring.

"We don't believe it anymore," one protester said regarding the
lies justifying NATO's continued presence in occupied nations, "the
only answer we'll take is an immediate exit and troops home now."


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War is a racket: American war veterans renounce the wars and throw their medals at NATO Summit

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