Canada to honor US draft dodgers

[eridani]

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/09/08/draft_dogers040908.html

NELSON, B.C. - B.C. activists plan to erect a bronze sculpture honouring draft dodgers, four decades after Americans opposed to the Vietnam War sought refuge in Canada.

The memorial, created by artists in Nelson, B.C., ties into a two-day celebration planned for July 2006 that pays tribute to as many as 125,000 Americans who fled to Canada between 1964 and 1977.

"This will mark the courageous legacy of Vietnam War resisters and the Canadians who helped them resettle in this country during that tumultuous era," Isaac Romano, the director of the Our Way Home festival told a news conference in Nelson Tuesday.

[LiberalVoice]

1. Awesome!

[gator_in_Ontario]

2. I know there are

2 guys in Ontario fighting to stay there after they went AWOL. It is in litigation now. Their argument is that the war itself is illegal, so they were right to refuse to go. They are seeking refugee status.