War resister Sara Beining
needs our help!
Campaign to raise $5,000 for Sara's legal assistance underway!
Sara Beining
February 4, 2014
After deploying to Iraq in 2006 and spending a year as an analyst in
Baghdad, my (now EX) husband and I went AWOL, suffering from PTSD. My
ex-husband received an other than honorable discharge after he was
apprehended in 2010.
I am now facing charges and General Court Martial -
the highest level of court martial and the harshest penalties received
for going AWOL. I am a mother, a college student, and a organic
gardener. I need help raising money for my lawyer to fly in for the
pre-trial hearing as well as the trial, as well as funds for purchasing
the "dress blues" - Army service uniform - for trial.
Let's
come together as a community to meet Sara's modest needs at this
important time. Stay tuned for additional actions that you might take to
support Sara and her child. Recently she shared on her public IVAW
profile page:
I enlisted in the Army at 17, I think, as part of the D.E.P. I spent a
year messing around, getting in trouble, and realizing that I was not
making good decisions before I decided to go through with heading on to
Basic Training and then AIT to become an intelligence analyst (96B). I
left for Basic in June 2004. I was stationed eventually at Fort Hood in
the G2 office, and then went to Iraq from December 2005 through November
2006. I went AWOL in January of 2007 and looked back once, only to go
AWOL again (September 2007). I joined Iraq Veterans Against the War when a protest march
interrupted my trip to the beach in Kennebunkeport, Maine, in early
summer of 2007. I currently am divorced, [and] have a usually-lovely 4 year
old who loves He-Man and Shawna Foster.
Campaign to raise $5,000 for Sara's legal assistance underway!
www.gofundme.com/6nv99s
www.gofundme.com/6nv99s
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