Monica Benderman made an excellent post in the forums at NeverGiveUp yesterday and it deserves wider notice because of what it says about the criticisms of those soldiers who choose to go “off the reservation” by leaving their posts, travelling to Canada or finding other havens away from the grasp of our military. The [...]
Commentary from Monica Benderman
A Man’s Word
When a soldier no longer wants to fight, when his conscience tells him that he can no longer believe in the mission and commanders order that soldier back to combat against his will, there is something wrong. There is something very wrong when commanders send that soldier [...]
October 13, 2005
From Chaos to Conscience to Peace
Monica Benderman
Please visit Sgt. Benderman’s website BendermanTimeline.com for a chronology of events, complete with documentation, leading to his court martial, along with a continuous discussion about Conscientious Objection and veterans’ issues.
On July 27, 2005, Sgt. Kevin Benderman was found guilty of Missing Movement and sentenced to [...]
Kevin Benderman
c/o Benderman Defense
PO Box 2322
Hinesville, GA 31310
Your letters will be kept and available for Kevin when he returns
home.
Kevin would also ask that you understand that, while he values your
support and appreciates every letter individually written to him, it
is more important that we continue to address our concerns to people
in his chain of command. [...]
This is the transcript of an interview with Monica Benderman conducted by Talk Nation Radio’s Dori Smith on August 10th 2005. The audio file of the interview is available here.
Monica Benderman, August 10, 2005, joins Talk Nation Radio Host Dori Smith, to talk about her husband, Kevin Benderman, who received 15 months in prison [...]
This has been sent out by Amnesty International appealing on behalf of Kevin Benderman as a prisoner of conscience. Regardless of politics, the conviction of Kevin on trumped up charges occurred solely because he applied for conscientious objector status (a legal application under military law) and for no other reason. Had Kevin’s imprisonment [...]
posted by Monica Benderman in TheWar.
When Kevin was serving his tour in Iraq, he was stationed in a small town on the Iranian border at one point. During that time, there were many feelings expressed to Kevin by the Iraqis who lived in the area. Most were resentful of the occupation (invasion, still [...]