Our Mission:
Quaker House is a manifestation of the Friends’ Peace Testimony. Based in Fayetteville, NC, home of Fort Liberty, Quaker House provides counseling and support to service members who are questioning their role in the military; educates them, their families, and the public about military issues; and advocates for a more peaceful world.
How We Implement Our Mission:
Recent News Posts
The Messy Reality of Unjust Orders
One of the most frequent calls received since Trump’s return to office has been from people who saw the GI Rights Hotline on social media and wanted to confirm that we’re “real” before they re-post our number. People are understandably worried about the military being...
Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Finally Being Recognized for Troops
Recognition of the life-long damage caused to the human brain from exposure to military related blasts is beginning. Despite doctors talking about “shell shock” and “combat stress reaction” for over 100 years, until recently these have been understood to be nothing...
Reshaping the Military, but Not Making it Shipshape
The leadership of the US military continues to recreate the modern forces in the image of the 1800s so beloved by the president. Women, people of color, trans people, and non-Christians have all been removed from the public histories, ejected from positions of trust...