Bio of Howard Wolf

Bio: attended Ohio State 59-63. USN pilot, 63-69. Two tours on carriers in Vietnam flying the A-4. Hired by Delta as a pilot in 69 - retired in 97.

My oldest son left this am for Iraq - on his fourth tour over there. He's a Major in the AL ANG flying the F-16.

I have to go to Seattle in Aug for a 2 day training course at the machine shop center. What are the dates of the convention? Maybe I could attend for a day.

Letter to the Editor, Marietta Daily Journal

Nov. 20, 2005 8 pm

I applaud the courage and wisdom of Rep. John Murtha, a veteran of Korea and Vietnam who has more compassion and patriotism than all the current administration officials combined.

His call to withdraw our troops from the illegal war in Iraq in the next six months is the right and patriotic thing to do.

Contrary to the insults of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and their warmongering comrades, 60 percent of Americans, including me, are not "irresponsible, dishonest, unpatriotic or reprehensible" because we firmly believe this administration has lied to us and this war is not worth fighting. We are not "cooperating with the enemy" when we support our troops and want them home now to stop the terrorism and bloodshed in Iraq. The Iraqis just want their country back from American occupation and destruction.

In 1968, I was recuperating at Oakland Naval Hospital after being wounded in Vietnam. The wards were filled with severely injured young Marines. Most of them had missing
limbs from anti-personnel mines. Where were you then Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney?

Now I have a son who is being sent to Bush's war in Iraq next year for the fourth (4th) time. Where are your children now Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney?

It's an insult to the thousands of lives lost to continue this war which was started and perpetrated on lies, graft, greed, corruption and political ambition. We can honor the slain and wounded best by stopping the carnage now. Our young men and women who fought there are not to blame, just the corrupt leaders who sent them.

Letter to the Editor, Marietta Daily Journal

Nov. 20, 2005 8 pm

I applaud the courage and wisdom of Rep. John Murtha, a veteran of Korea and Vietnam who has more compassion and patriotism than all the current administration officials combined.

His call to withdraw our troops from the illegal war in Iraq in the next six months is the right and patriotic thing to do.

Contrary to the insults of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and their warmongering comrades, 60 percent of Americans, including me, are not "irresponsible, dishonest, unpatriotic or reprehensible" because we firmly believe this administration has lied to us and this war is not worth fighting. We are not "cooperating with the enemy" when we support our troops and want them home now to stop the terrorism and bloodshed in Iraq. The Iraqis just want their country back from American occupation and destruction.

In 1968, I was recuperating at Oakland Naval Hospital after being wounded in Vietnam. The wards were filled with severely injured young Marines. Most of them had missing
limbs from anti-personnel mines. Where were you then Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney?

Now I have a son who is being sent to Bush's war in Iraq next year for the fourth (4th) time. Where are your children now Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney?

It's an insult to the thousands of lives lost to continue this war which was started and perpetrated on lies, graft, greed, corruption and political ambition. We can honor the slain and wounded best by stopping the carnage now. Our young men and women who fought there are not to blame, just the corrupt leaders who sent them.

Howard Wolf - Marietta, GA

Howard had the above "BRING THEM HOME NOW!" banner made in the summer of 2004 and hung it on the side of the balcony between a chiropractic office and Wild Man's Civil War Surplus shop in Kennesaw, Georgia. Posing in the above photograph is Virginia Rodino, Ph.D., national coordinator for US Labor Against the War, during her visit to Atlanta in late March-early April 2006 to attend the April 1, 2006 march and rally in Atlanta. Virginia wanted to see it for herself, which was part of a Civil War sites tour that she was taken on by VFP member Debbie Clark, along with visiting IVAW member Charlie Anderson. (Note: VFP Chapter 125 denounces racism in all its forms. The photograph above, as well as the close-up below, simply depict the reality of the South and the wide diversity in the opposition to the Iraq war/occupation. For more photos of Virgiina Rodino's and Charlie Anderson's tour of Civil War sites during their visit to Atlanta, intermixed with photos of the April 1 Atlanta march and rally with keynote speaker Joseph Lowery, followed by speaker Charlie Anderson of IVAW, see Debbie Clark's PhotoShow page - click on the show,"Touring Civil War Sites - Atlanta.". This PhotoShow has been reviewed and approved by Michael McPhearson, Executive Director of Veterans For Peace National, also a Southerner and an African-American. His son is also in Iraq.)