Chante Wolf - Veterans for Peace

I believed in what Jesus taught and talked about - compassion, forgiveness, kindness, working together. You help the poor - you don't shoot 'em! You don't bomb 'em and then take their resources and turn their wives into your prostitutes! I don't agree with that at all! I believed what the military told me. I believed that they were taking care of us - they took care of us, we were the people in the white hats, we were always the good, caring, compassionate, we do the right thing. None of us wanted to go to war. Well, that's true, but that's not the truth of the institution as I have found over the last fourteen years, that it's very much hidden as to what it is, or nobody would join the military, if that - I mean, what's the difference between joining the military now or joining the mafia? Nothing, we're doing the same thing.

So, I was all fine with Veterans for Peace and what they were doing to abolish war and everything, but, yeah, you're right, I just didn't want to be around military men. That's the whole point of the military. It's not a job program, folks. You're taught to flippin' kill people, for God sakes, and some of these people do kill people, and they kill people, and they kill people, and they kill people. That's what the military is, period. It's not about providing anybody with a job. It's not about providing anybody with equality - that's bullshit. You're trained to kill and win wars, period! And that changes you, and it's changed me. And it's an anger that burns inside of me because I know I can kill people. I came close to it.