Cluster Bomb Ban: Watch this Video
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The majority of those killed by cluster bombs are ordinary people, civilians walking down a road, farming, or playing where deadly unexploded submunitions have been left behind. But did you know that U.S. cluster bombs also kill U.S. soldiers?
Travis Bradach-Nall was only 21-years-old when he was killed by a U.S. cluster submunition while serving as a U.S. Marine in Iraq.
Watch this short video of his mother, Lynn Bradach, telling her son's story and urging that the U.S. ban cluster bombs. When I heard Lynn Bradach speak at a press conference put on by the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines and FCNL last fall, I knew this was something many of you would want to see.
Lynn's story is the kind of powerful, personal message that members of Congress also need to hear. Members of Congress need to know the consequences of not banning these mini-bombs that kill indiscriminately.
Ask your senators to watch this video and then support the Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act (S. 594), a bill that would effectively ban the U.S. from using or exporting cluster bombs. In the last two weeks, two new senators signed on as cosponsors of this bipartisan bill. But still only 18 senators have agreed to cosponsor this legislation. Whether your senators have cosponsored the bill or not, I urge you to write them both today and ask them to help move the legislation forward.
Increased support for this legislation also sends a message to the rest of the world. In two months, more than half of the world's governments will gather in Dublin, Ireland to continue negotiations on a global treaty banning cluster bombs. The U.S. will not be there. But by increasing support for the Cluster Munitions Civilian Protect Act you can show the world that many members of Congress and millions of people in this country want to ban these horrible weapons.
Contact your members of Congress through FCNL's web site.
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U.S. Senate
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U.S. House of Representatives
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