by Wayne Finegar | Nov 17, 2020 | Conscientious Objection, GI Rights Hotline
National Guard staging in Fayetteville, NC, in anticipation of protests after murder of George Floyd. Recently a young soldier called us from Ft. Benning, Georgia. Like many, he contracted the coronavirus during his first couple of weeks in basic training and was sent...
by Wayne Finegar | Nov 14, 2020 | Counseling Program at Quaker House
Joanna being interviewed by Reuters reporter about what we were seeing among service members with sudden deployments. Reporter was wearing a coat because we had to replace our furnace this year, too. We are very lucky in that despite the COVID-19 outbreak, clients...
by Wayne Finegar | Nov 13, 2020 | GI Rights Hotline, Peace, War and Use of Military Force
What gives us hope? This has been a tough time. As I write this, the presidential election in the United States has not officially come to a conclusion and the nine-day interval since Election Day has felt like a month, at least. COVID cases are beginning their...
by Wayne Finegar | Nov 22, 2019 | and Conflation with Patriotism, Fiftieth Anniversary, Moral Injury, Our History and Work, Religion, Torture and Extraordinary Rendition
An extraordinary event took place in Fayetteville, NC, on September 21, 2019. Fifty years of history were relived through the live recollections of past Quaker House directors, counselors, board members, and people whose lives were touched by Quaker House. People...
by Wayne Finegar | Nov 20, 2019 | Counseling Program at Quaker House, Domestic Violence
There’s a popular gym-chain that has many locations across the nation (they just opened a second one in Fayetteville) that has the tag line “Judgement Free Zone.” I have actually been to that gym, and the one I visited was true to their statement. People of all...
