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03-19-2008, 02:21 PM
Beyond the Border of War
In Canada, Deserters Find an Uncertain Haven, And Aid From an Earlier Generation That Fled
By Tamara Jones (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/tamara+jones/)
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 17, 2008; Page C01
TORONTO (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Toronto?tid=informline) In from the cold they come, gangly young men and graying grandfathers alike, filling a downtown church with the kind of polite anticipation more befitting an afternoon wedding than an antiwar rally. Banners dangle from the choir loft, bearing the same appeal as the T-shirts for sale in the foyer: "Let Them Stay."
Lee Zaslofsky bustles from pew to pew, an anxious organizer making sure everyone is in place on a recent Saturday -- the politicians and academics, the musicians, the pacifists, and a handful of runaway American soldiers seeking refuge in Canada (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Canada?tid=informline)
Zaslofsky, 63, knows each of the latter by both name and need. There is Jeremy Hinzman, the first one to seek asylum here, in limbo for four years now. And Phil McDowell, the computer geek whose patriotism was put to the test in Baghdad (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Baghdad?tid=informline). And Patrick Hart, the veteran worried about lost medical benefits for his sick son. All found their way to Zaslofsky and the quasi-underground network he runs for AWOL Americans crossing the border with little more than what they can fit in a duffel bag.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602749.html
In Canada, Deserters Find an Uncertain Haven, And Aid From an Earlier Generation That Fled
By Tamara Jones (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/tamara+jones/)
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 17, 2008; Page C01
TORONTO (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Toronto?tid=informline) In from the cold they come, gangly young men and graying grandfathers alike, filling a downtown church with the kind of polite anticipation more befitting an afternoon wedding than an antiwar rally. Banners dangle from the choir loft, bearing the same appeal as the T-shirts for sale in the foyer: "Let Them Stay."
Lee Zaslofsky bustles from pew to pew, an anxious organizer making sure everyone is in place on a recent Saturday -- the politicians and academics, the musicians, the pacifists, and a handful of runaway American soldiers seeking refuge in Canada (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Canada?tid=informline)
Zaslofsky, 63, knows each of the latter by both name and need. There is Jeremy Hinzman, the first one to seek asylum here, in limbo for four years now. And Phil McDowell, the computer geek whose patriotism was put to the test in Baghdad (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Baghdad?tid=informline). And Patrick Hart, the veteran worried about lost medical benefits for his sick son. All found their way to Zaslofsky and the quasi-underground network he runs for AWOL Americans crossing the border with little more than what they can fit in a duffel bag.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602749.html