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Subject: Another reason why I donate

  Caldwell Soldier Killed In Afghanistan

  Staff Sgt. Octavio Herrera.  PROVIDED BY THE HERRERA FAMILY

  August 12, 2013 Idaho Statesman

  A Caldwell soldier was one of three soldiers supporting Operation Enduring Freedom killed Sunday in an attack in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense announced Monday.

  Staff Sgt. Octavio Herrera, 26, Sgt. Jamar A. Hicks, 22, of Little Rock, Ark., and Spc. Keith E. Grace Jr., 26, of Baytown, Texas, died after enemy forces attacked their unit with indirect fire, the DOD said.

  The soldiers were assigned to the 4th Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky.

  Officials said Herrera and Grace died in Paktia Province. Hicks was evacuated to Forward Operating Base Salerno in Khost, Afghanistan, and later died.

  The Herrera family released the following statement on Monday:

  “First of all, we want the world to know that Octavio loved – and was deeply loved by – his family. His family has always been his priority, and it was clear to all of us that he took so much pleasure from being with us. That included play-wrestling with his nephews, nieces, his brothers and sister and even his father.

  “He was the youngest but strongest son, and we thought of him as our ‘big little brother.’ He loved having fun! Octavio’s smile lit up any room he was in, and we will never forget that smile.

  “He was so generous - Octavio spoiled his younger sister by giving her anything he could give her, and he was planning to take us all to Disneyland when he returned from this, his third deployment to Afghanistan.

  “But there was so much more to Octavio. He was hard working, he was very bright and he loved a good challenge. While he worked in the fields with his mother and father as he grew up, he wanted much more from life. He took advanced placement courses in high school, and when he entered college he found he had his first year’s worth of courses already done. He loved a good challenge, and actually built a computer himself when he was in high school. We laugh when we say it and we mean it with great affection - but he was a nerd in the finest tradition of that word.

  “From the time he was young, Octavio told us he knew he wanted to join the Army. It seemed his calling was for a life of public service, and he told us he wanted to continue his public service after he left the military, perhaps as a police officer. We feel this calling was a noble thing.

  “Octavio was seen as a leader and brother to so many who served with him. His friendship, loyalty, and kind spirit will be carried in the hearts of many. “He was a caring husband and best friend to his wife. He greeted each of their days together with one of his famous smiles. His wife was truly blessed to find her soul mate, and he will forever be the love of her life.”

  Octavio leaves behind his wife Courtney, his father, mother, grandmother and grandfather, two brothers, a sister, 2 nephews and 2 nieces, a sister-in-law, his mother and father-in-law, and a brother-in-law.  His extended family is in Oregon, Nevada, Chicago and Mexico.

  “He graduated Caldwell High School in 2005. Before he entered the U.S. Army in 2007, Octavio attended college in Phoenix, Arizona and Boise State University. While in Phoenix, he worked for UPS. Octavio also held jobs at Orphan Annie’s in Caldwell, Lowe’s in Nampa and at the Crookham Seed Company.”

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  From: L
  Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 3:43 PM
  Subject: Re: Military Resistance 10J16: "A Travesty"

  This is a particularly awesome issue. 

  I much appreciate the reference to Dr. Cortright’s book Soldiers in Revolt.  Had never heard of it before.

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  Prize #1: McPherson’s Classic;
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  New, never read, 894 pages hardcover.

  Prize #2: Carlyle’s The French Revolution
  Written in 1837, there is no equal to this book, except, perhaps, Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution, for bringing a revolutionary movement alive in print.  Many ideas appeared here for the first time: history as the unfolding movement of classes at war, elected workers and soldiers councils, materialist dialectics, and more!
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  Prize #4: Parkman’s History 1865
  “Parkman has been hailed as one of America’s great historians and as a master of narrative history” -- Wikipedia
  Reprint of the original: 1500 pages, covers the years 1512 – 1763; hard cover; beautiful condition.  The American writer and literary critic Edmund Wilson, in his book O Canada, described Parkman’s France and England in North America in these terms: “The clarity, the momentum and the color of the first volumes of Parkman’s narrative are among the most brilliant achievements of the writing of history as an art."

  Prize #5: Revolution In The Air
  By Max Elbaum, the first in depth account of the New Communist Movement of the 1970’s.
  Hardcover, 370 pages, Verso, 2002.  Slight cover fading, three words in pen inside front cover, otherwise excellent condition

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  May 1917: Russia
  The War Bond That Brought On A Revolution

  In February 1917, Russian workers and soldiers rose in revolution to overthrow a feudal government that had dragged them into an Imperial War, World War 1, where Russians died, at home and in the Army, for the glory and greed of the Czar, Emperor of Russia.

  Having gotten rid of him, they thought the new government, led by Prime Minister Kerensky, would stop the war.  Instead, in May 1917, he floated the Kerensky War Loan, gold backed bonds to borrow $188 million, to pay for keeping Russia in the war. 

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  This is the Kerensky war bond for 1000 gold rubles.

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  Prize #7: Jarhead
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  Paperback, 2003, new, 367 pages.  Barely visible bend.

  Prize #8: Laying Waste: 1980 Edition
  “The Poisoning Of American By Toxic Chemicals”
  Niagara Gazette reporter Mike Brown tells his story of Love Canal and other horrors in a book that woke America up to the reality of toxic chemical poisoning.
  350 pages; Hardcover Pantheon book; 1980.  Cover a mess, inside excellent.

  Prize #9:
  Vietnam GI: Complete

  A complete set of Vietnam GIs.  The originals were a bit rough, sometimes a line at the bottom gone, but every page is there.  Over 100 pages, full 11x17 size.

  Edited by Jeff Sharlet until his death (see below), this newspaper rocked the world, attracting attention even from Time Magazine, and extremely hostile attention from the chain of command. 

  The pages and pages of letters in the paper from troops in Vietnam condemning the war are lost to history, but you can find them here:

  VIETNAM GI
  August 1969

  Many good men never came back from Nam.  Some came back disabled in mind. Jeff Sharlet came back a pretty together cat—and he came back angry.  Jeff started VGI, and for almost two years poured his life into it, in an endless succession of 18-hour days trying to organize men to fight for their own rights. 

  On Monday, June 16th, at 2:45 pm, Jeff died in the Miami VA Hospital.  He died of a sudden heart failure, brought on by the uncontrollable growth of the cancer that had earlier destroyed his kidney.

  There was no way to save him.  He was only 27 years old.

  Rather than wait for the draft, like so many others Jeff went RA.  With dreams of seeing Europe, he applied for “translator-interpreter”, and found himself at the US Army Language School at Monterey, California. But instead of French, Czech or German, he was assigned a strange language called “Vietnamese”--. Spoken in a country he couldn’t even find on the map.  For eleven months in 1962 he was drilled in Vietnamese.

  In 1963 he was assigned to Army Security Agency, and left for his first tour in Nam. Stationed in Saigon awhile, Jeff witnessed the ARVN coup that overthrew Saigon dictator Ngo Diem. 

  On his second tour his ASA unit was stationed near Phu Bai. Engaged in top-secret work monitoring, decoding and translating North Vietnamese radio messages, they wore AF uniforms and worked at a small air base. 

  But every time they went into the bars, every bargirl could reel off all the facts about their mission.  Speaking the language well, Jeff could talk to many Vietnamese about what was happening to their country. 

  He spent long hours questioning ex-Foreign Legion men, who’d settled in Vietnam after the French left, peasants, ARVN officers, students, and even suspected VC agents.  By the time he ETSed in July, 1964 he’d put a lot of pieces together.

  Jeff went back to school, and got his college degree (with honors) from Indiana University in 1967.  During his “GI Bill years” he joined the peace movement, and became chairman of his local chapter of Students for a Democratic Society. 

  But he had become increasingly disillusioned about the student movement, and felt that its shallowness and snotty attitude towards other people made it ineffective.

  That summer he went to New York City to work with Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and it was there that he decided to try to organize other GIs to fight the brass.  Jeff had won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for graduate study at the University of Chicago.

  He enrolled and” picked up his check.  From then on all his time and money were sunk into starting a newspaper for servicemen.

  After two years of endless traveling, fund-raising and writing, Jeff’s drive started to fade. That restless energy that had brought him countless miles to base after base wasn’t there. 

  After his last trip to Ft. Hood in the Fall of 1968, Jeff complained that he was really beat, burnt out.  We all agreed that he should go “on leave” and take a rest.  It was while visiting friends in Boston that the first really severe pains started. Jeff flew home to Florida, and entered the hospital. 

  From there it was steadily downhill all the way.  The removal of his left kidney, massive radiation treatments, drugs—nothing stopped the growth of his cancer. 

  At the end he was weak and emaciated, without enough breath in his lungs to speak for more than a few sentences.  He said that he had many new ideas for our fight, but was just too exhausted to talk about them.

  Jeff was a truly rare man. 

  He was our friend and comrade, and those of us who came together in this fight will never forget him.  VGI, the paper that so many readers called “the truth paper,” will go on fighting.

  Prize #10: Unknown History
  Racism, Class Oppression And Governmental Stupidity Increase The Misery For Survivors Of The Great Flood Of 1937; A New History
  Hardcover, new, by David Welkey; 2011; 355 pages with maps and photographs.

  Prize #11: Fleas Change The World:
  “Plague, Empire And The Birth Of Europe”
  The Little Known Plague Epidemic Of The 6th Century Changes Europe Forever:
  By William Rosen:
  Smoothly Written Science History
  Cover scuff; otherwise excellent condition; softcover, 367 pages; 2007

  Prizes #12, 13
  Ten Different Early Issues Of GI Special

  Because most readers have come on within the last four years, many people have never seen early GI Specials, later name-changed to Military Resistance newsletter.

  None in these prizes will be more recent than 2004. 

  A slice of history.  Full color.

  [Example of front page:]
  GI Special:   thomasfbarton at earthlink.net     4.27.04                       Print it out (color best).  Pass it on.

  GI SPECIAL 2#67

  WELCOME TO IRAQ--
  HAVE A NICE DAY

  Call To Organize From Iraq Vet:
  “Together We Can End This Occupation”

  From: http://www.bringthemhomenow.com/ Posted 4.24.04

  To My Fellow Troops in the Iraq War

  Being in today's military can be a very tough thing, a feeling that is even worse when you don't believe in what you are fighting for.

  I was in that situation a year ago when I was in Iraq with the 1st Marine Division.

  I knew the war I was fighting in was wrong but I didn't see myself as having much choice. I knew that as soon as I left the Middle East I would make my feelings known and that is something I have done.

  All of us, veterans, reservists, National Guard and active duty, can side with Military Families Speak Out, Veterans For Peace, and other folks standing up to stop the senseless killing of Americans and Iraqis.  Those of us with direct experience in this disastrous occupation need to make our voices heard. 

  Michael Hoffman
  Veteran, USMC 2nd Marine division, Artillery
  Served with 1st Marine Division in 2003 invasion of Iraq
  Contact Michael at iraqvet at mail.com with questions or to join the cause.

  [END PRIZES]

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