Charles Sheehan-Miles
Charles Sheehan-Miles served as a tank crewman with the 24th Infantry Division during the 1991 Gulf War, and was decorated for valor for helping rescue fellow tank crewmen from a burning tank during the Battle at Rumayla. He was the founding Executive Director of the National Gulf War Resource Center, from 1995-97, and served 18 months as a boardmember and treasurer of the Education for Peace in Iraq Center. He is a former executive director of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, a Washington-based disarmament think-tank. Charles was one of the original co-founders of Veterans for Common Sense and became executive director in August 2004. He is the author of Prayer at Rumayla: A Novel of the Gulf War (XLibris, 2001) sheehanmiles.com.