Veterans For Peace

Veterans For Peace (VFP), a 501c3 organization founded in 1985, is a national organization "structured around a national office in Saint Louis, MO and comprised of members across the country organized in chapters or as at-large members." VFP is an official Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) represented at the United Nations. [1]

"The organization includes men and women veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, other conflicts and peacetime veterans." [2]

Events

• September 15 Coalition

Officers

Accessed April 2011:

• President - Elliott Adams
• Vice President - Leah Bolger
• Treasurer - Nate Goldshlag
• Secretary - Hart Viges

Board of Directors

Accessed April 2011:

• Leah Bolger
• Bill Collins
• Hart Viges
• Elliott Adams
• Cherie Eichholz
• Mike Ferner
• Gene Marx
• Joey King
• Dan Shea
• Darcella Craven
• Nate Goldshlag
• Rosemary Greenlee
• Will Hopkins

Officers (2005)

• David Cline, President
• Ellen Barfield, Vice President
• Bob Heberle, Secretary
• Ken Mayers, Treasurer
• Wilson Powell ("Woody" Powell), Executive Director

Board of Directors (2005)

• Ellen Barfield
• David Cline
• Gene Glazer
• F. Lincoln Grahfs
• Bob Heberle
• Frank Houde
• W. George Johnson
• John Kim
• Sharon Kufeldt
• Ken Mayers
• Barry Riesch
• Gideon Rosenbluth
• Wayne Wittman

Contact details

216 South Meramec Avenue
St. Louis MO 63105
Telephone (314) 725-6005
FAX (314) 725-7103
Website: http://www.veteransforpeace.org/

Resources and articles

Related SourceWatch articles

• civil war in Iraq
• Exit Strategy from Iraq
• Operation Iraqi Freedom
• peace movement
• stay the course
• violence in the Middle East
• Washington, DC, Mass March and Anti-War Rally September 24, 2005
• Hari Scordo
• Afghans for Peace

External articles

• Ann Scott Tyson, "Grass-Roots Group of Troops Petitions Congress for Pullout From Iraq," Washington Post, October 25, 2006: "The group, which aims to collect 2,000 signatures and deliver the message to Congress in January, is sponsored by antiwar activists including" Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans For Peace and Military Families Speak Out. re Call for the U.S. to Pullout from Iraq and Center on Conscience & War