Charles Sheehan-Miles served as a tank crewman with the 24th Infantry Division during the 1991 Gulf War, and was decorated for valor for helping rescue fellow tank crewmen from a burning tank during the Battle at Rumayla. He was the founding Executive Director of the National Gulf War Resource Center from 1995-97, and served 18 months as a board member and treasurer of the Education for Peace in Iraq Center. He is a former executive director of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, a Washington-based nuclear policy think-tank. Charles was one of the original co-founders of Veterans for Common Sense and became executive director in August 2004. He is the author of Prayer at Rumayla: A Novel of the Gulf War (XLibris, 2001).
Today is the sixth anniversary of the start of our most recent war in Iraq. News reports marking the occasion will no doubt note that combat deaths are now lower than at earlier stages in this war — a silver…
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