http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_58_Military_Skinheads.mp3 A Department of Defense investigator has said that thousands of soldiers in the military are involved in organized, extremist behavior. Dick talks to someone who wore both a Marine uniform and a swastika tattoo. Plone 2.0 http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_58_Military_Skinheads.mp3/logo.jpg http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_58_Military_Skinheads.mp3 <h4>MILITARY SKINHEADS</h4> <p><img class="image-left" src="../graphics/TJLeyden.jpg" alt="TJ Leyden" height="100" width="100" />Earlier this summer, the <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=66" target="_self">Southern Poverty Law Center</a> published a report about racist extremists in the US military. In that report, the Law Center quoted a Department of Defense investigator who believes that thousands of <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?sid=21" target="_self">soldiers in the Army </a> alone are involved in extremist and gang activity. Dick talks to <a href="http://www.strhatetalk.com/" target="_self">TJ Leyden</a> (pictured) who was once a skinhead in a Marine uniform and worked to recruit other Marines into the neo-Nazi movement.<br /> <a title="Add To This Story" class="addbtn" href="../addstory" target="_self">Add to Story</a></p> <h4>TEACHING TOLERANCE</h4> <p><img class="image-left" src="../graphics/image001b.jpg" alt="Gerda Weissmann Klein" height="100" width="100" />In addition to ringing the alarms about the resurgence of skinheads in the military, the Southern Poverty Law Center has come up with a new teaching kit. Called Teaching Tolerance, it tells the chilling story of Gerda Weissmann Klein. Gerda lost everyone in her family but survived six-years of Nazi cruelty. She was in labor camps and watched her closest friends die on a death march. Though her experience was horrifying, Gerda also remembers wonderful acts of decency and testaments to the human spirit.  [Photo: Gerda Klein with Morris Dees, Co-Founder and Richard Cohen, CEO, of the Southern Poverty Law Center]</p> <ul><li>Learn more about <a href="http://www.kleinfoundation.org/contact" target="_self">The Teaching Tolerance Kit</a> </li><li>Visit the <a href="http://www.tolerance.org/teach/?source=redirect&amp;url=teachingtolerance" target="_self">Teaching Tolerance Website</a></li><li>Learn about the <a href="http://www.kleinfoundation.org/" target="_self">Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation</a></li></ul><p> <a title="Add To This Story" class="addbtn" href="../addstory" target="_self">Add to Story</a></p> The Story racism military Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:35:00