In June 2006, Lieutenant Ehren Watada became the first commissioned
officer to refuse to deploy to Iraq. Lieutenant Watada believed that
participation in the conflict would make him party to war crimes. He was
brought before a U.S. Army court-martial in 2007 which ended in
mistrial. He was discharged from the Army in 2009.
This is an excerpt of a December 2006 interview with Ehren Watada from
the collection of Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project.
