Why I Fight Against Torture: The Children of Abu Ghraib
This is a series of diaries written about torture written from the perspective of the one enduring it, with as many first hand accounts as I can find. This is a continuation of the re-start of the...
View ArticleWhy I Fight Against Torture: Jose Padilla
This is a series of diaries written about torture written from the perspective of the one enduring it, with as many first hand accounts as I can find. This is a continuation of the re-start of the...
View ArticleWhy I Fight Against Torture: Omar Khadr, Part I
This is a series of diaries written about torture written from the perspective of the one enduring it, with as many first hand accounts as I can find. This is a continuation of the re-start of the...
View ArticleFor Those Looking for Why I Fight Against Torture
Dear Friends, I want you to know firstly, and most importantly, that I have been and remain completely and humbley grateful for each and every one of you who has read this series. I am so sorry...
View ArticleCanadian Kossacks: A Group You Might Be Interested In
Dear Friends, This is just an announcement for those of you who haven't seen that we have a group here on DK4 devoted to discussing things north of the border. Now that we have an election in the...
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IGTNT: Two Family Men
No quotation today, just tears for children without their dads and wives without their husbands.Thank, JaxDem and racheltracks, for being you. Love and Hugs, For...
View ArticleImportant: I Need An Inside Number
Dear Friends, This will be a short diary, which I will delete as soon as I have the answer I seek. My housemate died on Sunday, and I am assisting her husband in all that has been placed on...
View ArticleNN11 Anti-Torture Activist Gathering !
Dear Friends, I have wonderful news ! I need to YOUR help for it to be as great as I hope it will be. Netroots Nation has, at my request, given us space and time to gather anti-torture...
View ArticleNetroots Nation: Looking for a Roomate
Dear Friends, This is a short diary, and will be one of three I will be posting today on three different topics. I will be attending Netroots Nation this year, and will be organzing a...
View ArticleNN: Torture Roundtable/Discussion
Fellow Kossacks, We need to get accountability for torture back on the national agenda. President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary Rumsfeld, Judge Bybee, My Haynes, Mr. Yoo, and several...
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NFTT: For Dan, Today is His 65th Birthday
Dear Friends, As many of you know, my husband, Dan, was US Vietnam vet who survived torture. Six years ago today, was Dan's 59th birthday; his last as it turned out. So, today would have been...
View ArticleFemale, Disabled and Alone - Awakened by Two Strange Men
My Friends, Yesterday is the first time I have been scared when travelling as an unaccompanied female with multiple disabilities. I had to return from Netroots Nation on Friday, (more in seveal...
View ArticleBook That Changed My Life: The Late Addition
APOLOGIES:In the middle of the night, our power went out unexpectedly. It has only just returned, so I can now upload the diary. My HUGE apologies to avarir and to all of you for not being on time...
View ArticleAre YOU Going to Turn Away ?
Today in the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.I cannot turn away.My ears still ring with the screams of my husband, Dan, who survived tortured during Vietnam, those he has been gone...
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IGTNT: An American Sikh Marine, gone too soon
“Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can't separate people from love. It can't take away our memories either. In the...
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IGTNT: Two Marines With Fierce Determination
If tears could build a stairway, And memories a lane, I'd walk right up to Heaven And bring you home again. ~Author Unknown
View ArticleDo you print out diaries ?
This is going to be a very short diary, for which I apologize.I am wondering how many of you print out diaries, for future reference or whatever purposes ?Would it be useful to you to have a...
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IGTNT: Character, Commitment and Discipline
"It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.” Zig Ziglar
View ArticleWe Can Do Better Than This !
Dear Friends, The Kossack community is doing a Blogathon this weekend to raise money to help with the African famine.Here is the link to the most recent diary.http://www.dailykos.com/......
View Article48 Hours for East Africa
Have you ever been hungry ?No, I don't mean, missed-breakfast-and-it's-Noon-hungry.I mean, so hungry that it's takes every bit of strength you have to put one foot in front of the other.Have you ever...
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