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Veteran Joins a Different Battle

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

An Army veteran returns from war abroad and finds that his home has suffered a similar destruction.

” I expected such images of destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. But not in West Virginia.
Yet the ugly reality of mountaintop removal coal mining is what greeted me on my return home after a year-long tour in Iraq. Seeing the land I fought to protect being abused in such reckless fashion hit me in the gut, hard. It took years to recover my motivation to continue to fight for what I believe in back home”
-Jon Gesler, Army Captain

Gesler demands change in order to protect the land, the people, and the economy of West Virginia, as well as the nation’s security.

“We are at a tremendous crossroads, and taking these steps is the right thing to do to honor our past, and the right thing to do for tomorrow. Let’s work for a better future that gives West Virginians – and all Americans – the freedom to thrive in a new energy economy rather than slowly dying with the old. ”
-Jon Gesler

Click here to read his full story.

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