Meanwhile, Army Specialist Mark Wilkerson has been sentenced to seven months in a military prison. Wilkerson went AWOL after being denied conscientious objector status by the U.S. Army. Before he turned himself in last August, he recorded this message:

Mark Wilkerson: “I am not willing to kill. I am not willing to be killed. Or, I am not willing to kill or be killed for something I don’t believe in. My morals said that going to Iraq was not the right thing to do. And I was not going to live a life of violence. I was not going to participant in a war. So I then made the very difficult decision to go AWOL at that point.”