Dr. Bob Bowman, America’s greatest military patriot & whistleblower since Smedley Butler, will be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery this Wednesday, November 13th. My radio tribute to Dr. Bob will be broadcast Wednesday 10 to 11 a.m. on NoLiesRadio.org and archived here. Meanwhile, here is a tribute to Dr. Bob from his home chapter of Veterans for Peace. -KB
A farewell to one of our own: Remembering Dr. Robert M. Bowman
Central Florida Veterans For Peace
On August 22, 2013 ou
r friend and comrade Dr. Bob Bowman passed away at the age of 78 after a long courageous eight year battle with cancer. Dr. Bob, as he was so lovingly known to so many, leaves behind his wife of 57 years Maggie Bowman, their seven children and 21 grandchildren.
Bob was well known as the Pentagon insider who courageously blew the whistle in the early 1980’s on the U.S. government’s plans to use as an offensive “first-strike” weapon the “Star Wars” missile defense system (aka SDI) which he directed in the 1970’s when the program was top secret.
Prior to his work with SDI, Bob Bowman served as a USAF fighter pilot with service in Korea and Vietnam. It was Col. Bowman’s war experience in Vietnam that led him to dedicating the rest of his life to working for peace as a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and later as a celebrated member of Veterans For Peace, serving as its keynote speaker at 4 separate VFP national conventions.
Colonel Bowman was the National Commander of the non-partisan veterans’ organization The Patriots, whose motto is “Follow the Constitution. Honor the Truth. Serve the People.” (See www.ThePatriots.us) That same motto served as a campaign slogan for Bob as he tried to make a difference by running for U.S. President in 2000 and for U.S. Representative in 2006 and 2008.
In 2009 when the new national veterans organization Oathkeepers was founded, Bob Bowman quickly joined as its tenets basically mirrored those of VFP’s own “Operation Support and Defend” national campaign launched two years earlier and as he recognized the opportunity to bring the politically conservative veteran members of the Oathkeepers and the politically liberal veteran members of Veterans For Peace together around the common goal of ending the illegal, unconstitutional wars. Dr. Bob saw the political division amongst the American people as a major obstacle to achieving peace.
Year after year Bob and his wife Maggie travelled in their motor-home throughout the country on their annual “Patriot Tours” giving talks at events sponsored by groups from the political left as well as the political right. Thankfully his message was captured in videos such as the July 2009 YouTube “Dr. Robert M. Bowman: America is Artificially Divided” and the July 2010 “Left and Right Together”.
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Bob Bowman was quick to speak out against the U.S. government’s improbable, if not impossible, official theory explaining the conspiracy behind the attacks of 9/11/01.
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Dr. Bowman’s advanced degrees in Nuclear and Aeronautical Engineering made it difficult to counter his argument that fires fueled by office furnishings and kerosene based jet-fuel could not make 3 steel-framed concrete skyscrapers blow up into dust and fall in nearly free-fall speed in perfectly symmetrical collapses. His experience as a USAF interceptor pilot made it equally as difficult to counter his argument that 4 known to be hijacked jumbo-jet airliners do not fly around in U.S. airspace for more than 90 minutes without being intercepted unless there was a stand-down order on the interceptor planes. Dr. Bowman provides more in-depth interviews concerning both aspects of the 9/11 official theory as can be seen in the 2012 documentary from AE911Truth.org entitled “9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out”.
Hopefully after more than 12 years now of the “War on Terror”, enough of us will finally see 9/11 Truth as the necessary ingredient to actually stopping the 9/11 Wars. In the meantime, those of us who remain in Bob Bowman’s home chapter of Veterans For Peace in Central Florida will continue his work for peace by continuing to carry his message.
Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist is one of America’s best-known critics of the War on Terror.
He is the host of TRUTH JIHAD RADIO; a hard driving weekly radio show funded by listener donations at Patreon.com and FALSE FLAG WEEKLY NEWS (FFWN); an audio-video show produced by Tony Hall, Allan Reese, and Kevin himself. FFWN is funded through FundRazr.
He also has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS, and other broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and other leading publications.
Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin; where he ran for Congress in 2008. He currently works as a nonprofit organizer, author, and talk radio host.
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