Eric Wasileski is a Persian Gulf Veteran of Operation Desert Fox, father, activist, preacher, ethicist and poet. Eric recently published his first book of poetry, Live Free (or Die), with Human Error Publishing. He is the coordinator of the Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans for Peace. He is also the clerk of the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends Peace and Social Concerns Committee. A pulpit supplier and graduate of the Andover-Newton Theological School (M.Div), he has worked professionally as a minister in UU and Quaker parishes.