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time commitment. week in. week. two. when i came home it was amazing it was honestly one of the best ones of my life i thought i was going to pass out i was so happy. there was my wife and my daughter that i had seen three year and it was just almost too good to be true it was

wonderful. at the same time that was only so wonderful because it's been the last year away from them in iraq which was terrible and so when a t.v. camera man came up to me and asked me some questions i told him on a about it's a i'm really glad to be home and proud of my service but i am against the war in iraq and i know that some family members and some friends weren't pleased that i said that i thought it was maybe inappropriate at the time but if every soldier comes home and they just say that they're glad to be home the moans in the truth about what's going on in iraq.

it's puts a. slight listed things in it maybe the support is absent that states will simply. give them and so far as people on the one hundred plus the two seem to miss you know maybe it was. the salt lake. city. police saying. that. please. let the police see if. she is. the love of. my whole life and whatever i've tried to do i try to unite the will of the spirit of the work of the flesh that's a spiritual journey most spirituality which all of us have to. have to deal with

what it called that or not call it truncheons i was never an athame as to never mind letters because i didn't think i learned how and then i died after casey have been. killed for about three weeks my daughter in a crime and you know the last couple hindsight if we the people let them continue another mother will be i would think that the least the least you know tell people my story. it's the guys are stuck or you know a couple so they all go back we are there is there fun for us somebody's house for . their house. if people are if i didn't object to some obvious injustice i couldn't live with myself i can't make a difference unless i'm going to try listening to them and on my deathbed and say at least i tried to make it up and when i found out we were getting deployed we

were living in ohio so we just threw everything to her advantage to track her so now everything's kind of settled and i'm getting out of the army. and i have to go through all this crap and figure out what's the stuff i keep what's the stuff i turn back to the unit. so i can get out without paying too much money. i'm going to do things. we are back from iraq on july twenty fourth that's the day you thought so braids and statehood and so you know there's like kinds of fireworks parades and things like that but it was a bad day from what was and so it was loud sounds when it's really jittery and a little a little bit i would think it was still around. i think it's probably when my parents have said when i come home i have to do something momentous or spending the year in iraq is in the trade journals i saw so

much waste going on with u.s. contractors i saw so many soldiers not having a clear mission they're just kind of wasting their time trying not to get killed for a year and then i talked to so many iraqis and they said they wanted the u.s. presence gone just watch the movie i guess or not part of their life and he told me the car lots and so i kind of understand some of the feelings he was coming from i felt connection to run cooking you know he was this is a veteran who's been protesting war for decades you know and i photo i was going to miss what steps toward. the horses are you serious you're in there and here. where there may be adversaries really during i just said i'm going to spank him it's hard because in protesting this kind of a paradox you need to do something crazy enough to get the media and people to pay attention to you in the same time it can be so crazy that people think you're

insane and you lose a credibility he kept thinking of these ridiculous ideas and illegal things like. you know j.m. south of places and going on a hunger strike and then finally it came to me i thought i'll walk the length of you thought it would be about five hundred miles i do it takes me about twenty seven days and we're going to publicize it and have people invited become law. but that's i think hopefully speaking people started to bait have a dialogue instead of just. chanting the slogan or waving signs from space and i figured walking that's pretty normal and people walk every day right to possess or not to do this you know write a book right on to something very simple research non-controversial if. everything. looks still for us this is really again raised and during the vietnam era when the peaceniks were

a bunch of weird people they were hippies and and and the drives and that kind of stuff and i just didn't want my son to be associated with that kind of a thing but. he really held our. young people to stop. the read a statement he said we have the highest ratings for bush and for the war and it's my home state so i think this is the best place to do it and marshall is out of utah he's out of the predominant the cheese he's keeps you looks like a normal utah nice not on the fringe he's not banging drums the state of utah as a whole i think is extremely conservative and by that term i mean resistant to change so you tom still really like george bush they like him as a guide eighty one might have a glass of milk with them or if they're that kind of time i support president bush

totally with sending all the people out to fight for our country because that's what it's all about our support but. then it is because he's a republican. is it because you're man enough to turn him out of it one of the delusion that i may have had one of the new and i don't know how did it. an eight or sad eight year. they involved don't know which one it is but one of them said he thinks liberalism in disease. and i've won the fight now what about and i tell you i disagree with aim is not is a vision good net effect cunt diseases can be cured. i mean you started out you want to spread the word but you have no budget no influence no connections to be that. serious or. a. little. slip

that's such a plague there's a. shit load it up. for. it a long. long letter. you sent out press releases we got a website a networking site for invited politicians from both parties i talked to an orthopedic doctor i talked to the physical trainer we publicize that we go permits to walk over protesting the students tell my family and friends together they all chip in everyone can seem to use their towns and their abilities treat this free moment i also went through local food you'll see. what's the meanest thing anybody's ever said private but. it took

a couple of pretty bad going to come along now or will i will that make up that one other person all it took me look like it is very important i think the president needs to be there every week like people don't understand something gang look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look at all. look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look. but there are some leaders here they are not completely on line on the issue and on the ground there are locals and they have been there they have no idea but like they are they don't think i'm the one you will look what i've been on the ground i've gone over there. but they are here for

whatever they're. like to make it something and communication and i keep thinking if you don't offer me a we don't support the troops. but i wish that you believe he's making. amy goodman is the host of democracy now it's a really popular news program and she was coming to town to do a book signing she's going to start with three people independently one of them told her hey why are you here and so if you interview this army surgeon and she calls up that night and we were expecting you know the next day we're done there's always do an interview can be good when there's going to announce. today ted democracy now exposed to the army reservist marshall thompson dispensing year in iraq working as a military journalist the son of a former you time they are he now plans to walk across his home state the rest in the nation to protest for at this point it doesn't matter why we got into the war

and what the partisan politics were about all matters is the two soldiers dying every day on average and any any way that we can in this war one day soon as tonight said it and i would walk five hundred miles for that i would walk a thousand miles for. some people said some terrible things not never to my face you know but in even though they got this electronic bravery and they would really say some crazy things one guy wrote in and he said that he hoped that i got run over by a truck i'm going to walk. a lot of people said i just hope they keep walking the mexico where you leave this country went on here. and one gave and said that he wished that i had died in iraq because then i would have been on a rouble. so i was about to go speak at utah state to help promote the walk in right before we go in a phone call from the utah department of transportation and they told me that if i

was going to walk they would arrest me for trespassing on the state highway and suddenly it was political suddenly he was against it suddenly he needed a permit. for no other reason than that it was a peaceful but you. i told you that i would be arrested a pretty good actually i believe but one of some was working and i really don't know whether what you just arrest them unchecked he says that i can't walk on the sidewalk myself because i have a reason for one side more who would like you to do this could you tell yourself you used to do we can just arbitrarily decide to meet me didn't transpose the other people. i'm. so old enough to keep. mum. on i'm sorry and i was just you just in the previous hospital like war just like you're trying to arrest me yeah seriously you're asking. stupid

can you believe in the american press to walk straight here in wales i had seen how we're doing luckily my father was a lawyer and so so he got in touch with the a.c.l.u. together they were able to convince the attorney general of the time that. it was in fact my right as a u.s. citizen and an iraq war veteran to walk down the street without being arrested. fishies it's good kicker imodium i've been proven camelback by underwater walkie talkie cell phone ring co-parents and then calories like true mix or get in gator and can that is a good start. it's the morning of the walk. and everything's pretty much ready i was hoping for good weather if nothing else this welcoming me over make me feel like they're not doing my best right so nobody shows up i'm just washed in the rain all day here we thought i. was.

saying. the same planets on the banks of. sound just running to see the old coming in mind it was funny i let the. getting together. sun as the way things get out that within loving a new get on the sheets without me saying the same spiel again it's a good looking listing of things. but by the time we are to the point where people are going to walk with me three become stuck with the scum the first test of this crazy stuff is going to work going around that corner and there was a period when i could imagine there was probably five hundred fifty people which for a small comic will get that's a lot. that was amazing that has been so good i feel at that moment i thought i

could finally come home i learned. it's. wonderful to see so many people here who want peace thanks so much. time to. time i let her walk up the. the blade legend says something that six then i'm not a say no stand up. stand up. he said get up stand up to something sound good look this. guy. never. mind john strong morning when i came down from oregon. heard me goodman on her program now say marshall was going

to do this law and so i come from a long history. in the during the civil rights movement of. vietnam. and saw the moon come. we're going to turn the whole world around. what more can the world can't survive with with the spores going on and on no this has to happen now that seem to be. there is a changing tide in america and you're part of it today we're sending the mandate from the people to the government of the united states and to the representatives of utah especially the utah does not support a war we support peace it was a total plan for. this morning to become real to the american people the military is a war america is not and that needs to change. again

i'm here because my my dad is a neat combat and the way they were affected him. made her. some. he says that violent childhood in my house and so i hope that this will be a place for some sense of unity about finding another way i see as being like gone he's. gone he's walking is one of the see this is a big deal i think it will call attention to the fact that a lot of people feel similar you know similarly the way he feels deep down inside but maybe they're afraid to voice serve in you know even just small demonstrations going to make the community aware that hey we exist i think it will help people think. when somebody from the u.s.

military a soldier. sees what's going on over there and and can tell you exactly that there's no good that's coming out of iraq. it's a people listen to that they listen to a soldier i think his opinion isn't really indicative of what most soldiers think i think most soldiers think this right here you know that. that really we ought to stay the course we've got state we've got to put together we got to fight smarter we got to fight harder but we don't just give up and run away we can't leave these people we committed ourselves now i whether or not we are for the you know being committed or not we're there now we need to get committed to the cause but i would much rather die for a cause then for him to just die in vain i mean we've cut right now all those people died in vain all it's time for us to pull up to ourselves up on the bootstraps and. i mean come on wake up america we got it we got to win this thing.

for about a mile or so the canyon starting here and. this is dog oregon a better. america saw in honoring his willingness to speak out communities about this that's why i came down i know you're on the air. yeah you know the word nightmare. over there i'm sorry don't laugh at me don't laugh at me you know whacked because you are and you know what you better start paying attention to president bush and what we want you we are over there. we have found. that distraction and whatever and you know what my loved one came home and you want to get back to work find children may not support what on earth are you doing tramping around you want to get out and why did we want one of them other want to want you

when you know what you have. for the country over there i don't think i had a mother i prayed for president bush and why he doesn't even fart not you and you know what my opinion of this guy walkerton i think is crazy i think there's an easier way to get a court across the walk across the state of utah in the one nine hundred sixty s. to be an activist an anti-war activist is considered generally. sort of this reputable not really ethical thing to do and i think it's still true to people in. protest and this is this is this is what i hear from people i talk to them if you know the people who protesters in phoenix near you know they're dead ender is near impossible. that he will come and straightest protest your ass and ultimately. just might.

take up a. state . that comes first. she said it's a joke. this is. just false. as you just. listed. it.

says. in the military they tell you that the people protesting the war or the smiths rachel tell you the same thing that this one should be so that they'd be. for you there against the troops what fun is that it's exactly the opposite any think about the leaders in the peace sarek actions against the war it's veterans for peace it's military families speak out it's gold star families for peace these are for organizations that are the leaders of the peace movement that are all surrounded by the military part military families speak out that's true. there were. my door. down there with the military or its allies. or.

i realize that a little. bit too many work family. or good morning michael. i think i. have i have i'm. looking good thank you thank you so much yeah i must see both of you i'm. the democratic candidate for congress in person history i was honored. except the invitation to be part of. my name st johnstone i'm running for u.s. senate for utah and i'm here to support marshall because i think what is going to great name is larry and it was always so. i just got out of the army myself to the

army for five years one of the rank of a sergeant i'm here to support arsenal. it was for the cause not believe that people you know people need to be aware of what's going on the world right now great majority of the active duty army supports this and they want more of this they don't want to put it you know send packages are posted on their car or they want you to do this supporting the troops supporting the change. a charmer in here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture.

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