Ledger-Enquirer

11/17/05

Army Spc. Katherine Jashinski, fighting back tears as she explained why she is a conscientious objector, set the tone for this week's SOA Watch protest just outside the gates of Fort Benning. What started 15 years ago as a protest to close the School of the Americas, which trains military personnel from Central and Latin America, is also becoming an anti-war movement. Jashinski, a member of the Texas Army National Guard, is fighting deployment to Afghanistan and seeking a military discharge. A U.S. District Court judge in San Antonio last week refused to grant the 22-year-old Army cook a temporary restraining order that would have delayed her deployment to join her unit, already in Afghanistan. She reported to Fort Benning this week for weapons training...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp