What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done?

Last Friday night, I charged my batteries, packed my gear and went to bed early. I knew it would be a draining next day. I was right.

Since January, I have been learning about individual stories of men and women in the military who are resisting the war. First, I met a cousin I had only know through distance, in the most unlikely of places: the Quantico Brig where he was serving time for deserting the Marines. “Jesus,” I remember thinking when a family member told me his story, ”I have to hear his story first hand.”

So the journey of discovering an underground movement, which started with Paul (you can expect to hear his story soon) — and now, with the weekend Summit “Winter Soldier” — a public movement of GI Resistance has begun. The story of Paul, which has inspired me to tell stories like his, led me to the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and a four-day program bringing hundreds of young Vets together to testify about the criminal nature, and what they call immoral disposition of this war.

The video  you are about to see sets up what I hope will be a full eight months of reporting the untold, under-reported story of GI Resisters. These men and women are hardened by war but driven by a duty. Although this duty is not one condoned by the hand of the largest, most powerful military in the world, it is a duty nonethless that same hand nurtured.