Welcome to the S.O. Peace Vets website!
We are a new veterans peace group in the Rogue Valley and this is our new website. Please look around and send feedback to Allen Hallmark at hallmark3843@gmail.com. If you are a veteran or close to a veteran and are for peace in this war-weary world, we invite you to join us. Use the same email address to contact Allen and he'll get in touch with you.
Peace is Patriotic
In the U.S. the public is often focused on Patriotism. People often take time to “thank” a veteran for their service without having a clue about what that service entailed. Many vets return from war broken in health and in spirit.
TRUE PATRIOTISM is not a blind obedience to government, and not a worship of flags and anthems.
PROTESTING INJUSTICE, immorality, or any circumstance where the United States is not living up to its creed is the most patriotic thing that you can do as an American and is critically important to elevating the voices of the most vulnerable in our nation.
“Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.”
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
--Daniel Ellsberg