"Soldiers of Conscience" now viewable online

The superb film, "Soldiers of Conscience," is now available in its entirety for free as a streaming online video until November 18th: http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2008/soldiersofconscience/fullfilm.html

"Soldiers of Conscience is a dramatic window on the dilemma of individual U.S. soldiers in the current Iraq war — when their finger is on the trigger and another human being is in their gunsight. Made with cooperation of the U.S. Army and narrated by Peter Coyote, the film profiles eight American soldiers, including four who decide not to kill, and become conscientious objectors and four who believe in their duty to kill if necessary. The film reveals all of them wrestling with the morality of killing in war, not as a philosophical problem, but as soldiers experience it — a split-second decision in combat that can never be forgotten or undone."

More info:

Check out this resource web page on the film: http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2008/soldiersofconscience/resources.html

The PCUSA resource on military service (pro and con) is online at http://www.pcusa.org/oga/conscientious-objection.htm

The Center on Conscience and War (NISBCO) is an interfaith organization supported by the PCUSA (PPFer Bill Galvin is their Counseling Coordinator): http://www.centeronconscience.org/home.shtml

Also, see PPF on Conscientious Objection