May 24th, 2012
U.S. Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Return War Medals at NATO Summit
Broadcast on Democracy Now! – Monday May 21, 2012 Go to the show page.
Democracy Now! broadcast from Chicago, site of the largest NATO summit in the organization’s six-decade history. On Sunday, veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as members of Afghans for Peace, led a peace march of thousands of people. Iraq Veterans Against the War held a ceremony where nearly 50 veterans discarded their war medals by hurling them down the street in the direction of the NATO summit.
