David was my boss, mentor, friend and I loved him. He recruited me into VFP by simply being the person he was, a veteran working for peace. There are few people outside of my family whose death means such a loss to me personally. There are few in our nation whose loss means so much to our movement.
Read the online memorial statements to David Cline here.
Short activism bio from Wikipedia.
David Cline (January 8, 1947 – September 14, 2007) was an
American anti-war and veterans rights
activist. He was best known as National President of
Veterans For Peace (VFP) from 2000 to 2006, Chapter Vice President of Alan Reilly - Gene Glazer VFP Chapter 21, and co-founder of the
Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign. Cline was featured in the 2006 film
Sir! No Sir!, which documented the GI antiwar movement during the Vietnam war as well as in the book
"Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War" by Richard Stacewicz.
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David was my boss, mentor, friend and I loved him. He recruited me into VFP by simply being the person he was, a veteran working for peace. There are few people outside of my family whose death means such a loss to me personally. There are few in our nation whose loss means so much to our movement. Read the online memorial statements to David Cline here.
Short activism bio from Wikipedia.
David Cline (January 8, 1947 – September 14, 2007) was an American anti-war and veterans rights activist. He was best known as National President of Veterans For Peace (VFP) from 2000 to 2006, Chapter Vice President of Alan Reilly - Gene Glazer VFP Chapter 21, and co-founder of the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign. Cline was featured in the 2006 film Sir! No Sir!, which documented the GI antiwar movement during the Vietnam war as well as in the book "Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War" by Richard Stacewicz.
Read the rest here.
