The War Resisters Support Campaign (WRSC) is a Canadian non-profit community organization, founded in April 2004 in Toronto, Ontario to mobilize support among Canadians and worldwide to convince the Canadian government to offer sanctuary to all U.S. military personnel who wish to come to Canada because of their opposition to the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
See also: Canada and Iraq War Resisters, List of Iraq War Resisters, Jeremy Hinzman, Robin Long, Joshua Key, and Daniel SandateRead more about War Resisters Support Campaign: Overview, The War Resisters in Canada, Important Dates, Punishments Given To Iraq War Resisters, Resisters Who Went Back, See Also
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“But no, he only said,
“Well, there’s the storm. That says I must go on.
That wants me as a war might if it came.
Ask any man.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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