Dennis Kyne
Active musician, volunteer and co-founder of Veterans for Peace chapter 101 in San Jose, CA, Dennis was born and raised on the streets of San Francisco, Berkeley, and San Jose. He graduated cum lade as a Dean’s Scholar from San Jose State University with a BA in political science. Before college, Dennis was a US Army drill sergeant and Airborne medic, in addition to earning an Active Duty Nomination to United States Military Academy at West Point and graduating Nuclear Biological Chemical School at Ft. Benning in Georgia. Kyne, the award-winning author of We Can Transcend The Existing Boundaries, recently released a new album, Support the Truth, and addressed the Uranium Weapons Conference in Hamburg, Germany October 2003.
“My hometown San Jose was home to Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the ‘68 Black Power Olympians who raised their black gloved fists in the air. San Jose was one of the first cities in America to have a Gay Pride Parade. I went in the Army to be a medic; I was trained to conserve the fighting strength and ensure the health and welfare of my troops. I realized that wasn’t what they wanted me to do when they basically used me as a guinea pig during a war… I came to accept that this military, which embodies many social viruses, was not doing anything to protect the citizenry from these social viruses. So I decided to tell the truth.”