Every day we entrust our lives to each other.

Working together we were able to endure.

Every challenged, we face together.

And learned to care!

Gordon Soderberg

I'm a Canadian citizen who has lived in the US since I was 4 years old. I joined the Navy to serve the country that gave me my home, family, education, career, and sense of community. My Naval service was from 1982 - 87 in the pacific fleet on USS Sample FF 1048 and on the USS RANGER CV61, Corpsmen and operating room trauma surgical tech schools and Oak Knol Naval Hospital.

While I was in the fleet I spent my time as a seaman. My duty was to man the forward maindeck. The first pictures are of my ship as it is refueled in the Persian Gulf in 198. We were there to support Iraq in it's war with Iran, and Afghanistan's war with the U.S.S.R. This was a product of the US Policy designed by the president Ronald Wilson Reagan.

Protecting the flow of oil was our mission. We gave Iraq and Afghanistan money, Intel, weapons, equipment and training and patrolled the gulf to keep Iran from interfering with oil shipments. While in the Persian Gulf, the barracks in Lebanon was destroyed killing 241 Marines and Navy corpsmen. We in turn, shot down a Iranian passenger aircraft? Claiming self-defense. These events changed my perceptions of my career and gave me a glimpse of the unintended consequences of military service, owning the responsibility of being a participant in actions that undermined our credibility in the middle east and started us on the path to war.

After leaving the fleet, I trained to become a corpsmen and trauma surgical technician at Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego, and was then stationed at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital. I also trained as RDMF Corpsman at 29 stumps. I left military service with an honorable discharge and the knowledge that the US Military would be going to the the Persian Gulf for years to come.

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Now, 22 years later, I'm haunted by the fact that the children that were born in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Spain, and Italy, when I was in the Navy are now killing each other because our in ability to communicate and arbitrate peacefully.

I've seen death come to Sailors, Marines and Civilians in military action, training, from accidents, suicides, murder and natural catastrophe. However, they are only honored for their sacrifice when they die in action, giving their lives in protecting "Our Interests Overseas". However, they are just as dead. And for what? For the adventure? Being all they could have been? The experience? What I fear most, is that it was all for a lie.

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As I get older, I'm realizing my physical and mental health was effected form what I seen and done in my Naval and medical careers. So, I'm trying to deal with it by expressing myself through my art and helping others do the same. That is why I've joined Veterans For Peace and will document the Roadtrip to Boston in this website and video project.

I stand with others and state that war for oil is wrong, and to send our boys or girls to their deaths for corporate profits is beyond wrong, is is inhuman, and a sin of greed. To be blunt in my opinion, it is treason to do it for false reasons.

I have created this site to support the Veterans For peace National Stop The War Roadtrip.

Email me:

gordonsoderberg@mac.com

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