In the late 1980s, Lorn Fant, 65, of Reno, was a sailor serving aboard the USS Callaghan in the Gulf of Oman as the war between Iran and Iraq was in progress.
“I remember seeing oil tankers burning,” said Fant, who was interviewed March 28 while marching in the “No Kings” protest in downtown Reno. “We would identify the ships that were coming and going in the strait.”
The Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz are back in the news today as Israeli and American forces are bombing Iran, and thousands of U.S. Marines and paratroopers are arriving in the Middle East as a prelude to a possible ground war. That’s why Fant decided to spend a Saturday morning marching in the protest.
“The Iran war is a complete blunder, a huge mistake,” he said. “We are in a worse position now than we were when the war started. I think Trump will surrender and just back out.”…