Town Hall Meeting on Iraq
Speakers include: Jeffrey Weiss, Peace Education Director with the Central Region of the American Friends Service Committee; Sue Dinsdale, who works for awareness of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and to ensure healthcare and readjustment services for our soldiers; and Terri Jones, whose son SPC Jason Cooper took his life four months after returning home from a yearlong deployment to Baghdad. Jones represents Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families for Peace and the Iowa Peace Task Force. This Town Hall Meeting is sponsored by Time for Peace, a secular, nonpartisan effort by members of the Ames community to provide an alternative voice for peace and nonviolence.
SPC Jason Cooper was twenty-three years old. He was assigned to the 308th Quartermaster to supply fuel and water to troops. His job turned into being a convoy escort for contractors on the deadliest highway in the world - Hiafa Street.