For Immediate Release Contact: David Couper
Monday, Sept. 14, 2026 PHONE: 608-444-7207
Billboard at Truax Tells Service Members to Refuse Illegal Orders!
Press Conference, Thursday September 17, 2026
MADISON — On Thursday, September 17, at 10:00 a.m., Madison Veterans for Peace Chapter 25 will hold a press conference on Stoughton Road at Orin Road [near Planned Parenthood] to highlight the billboard it has put up outside Truax Air National Guard base. The billboard has Uncle Sam saying, “U.S. Troops: I want you to refuse illegal orders”.
Upon joining the U.S. military, service members swear to uphold the U.S. Constitution and are bound by the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). It states that all orders from superiors are assumed to be legal, but that this assumption “does not apply to a patently illegal order, such as one that directs the commission of a crime.”
In the spring 2025, Veterans for Peace began a national billboard campaign to remind U.S. military service members of the obligation to refuse illegal orders. Over two dozen billboards have gone up around the U.S. and Puerto Rico near military bases.
Previously, Madison Veterans for Peace Chapter 25 has installed billboards at Volk Field on US90/94 as well as on WIS21 near Ft. McCoy.
Veterans For Peace is an organization of military veterans and allies who aim to build a culture of peace by using our experiences and lifting our voices. We inform the public of the true causes of war and the enormous costs of wars, with an obligation to heal the wounds of wars, and working to end all wars. Madison Chapter 25 meets monthly and welcomes all interested people. https://www.veteransforpeace.org/
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