“Behind these bars I sit a free man because I listened to a higher power, the voice of my conscience.”
- Camilo Mejia, the first U.S. veteran of the Iraq War to publicly refuse further service in Iraq. His application discharge as a conscientious objector was rejected by the military. He was found guilty of desertion and was sentenced to a one-year prison term in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He was released February 15, 2005.