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here in the courtroom until allowed to take his own team of lawyers. as we have lines here in our back at the top of the hour with more updates for you the meantime we'll meet an army journalist who's staying in a thousand kilometer walk to talk people out of the war. we need. to.

do. what i came home it was amazing i was honestly one of the best friends of my life i thought i was going to pass out i was so happy. there was my wife and my daughter that i hadn't seen for a year and it was just almost too good to be true it was going to. at the same time there 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 out of the bat i said i'm really glad to be home i'm 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 nuns going to know the truth about what's going on in iraq. just. puts a. slight in listening to me because the put it happened that day too well and impatient to get him in so many people on the one hundred plus to cut it up to the senior miss you know maybe it was. a. little sleep. in the middle east. to. please.

let me sleep. sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep in the office. my whole life and whatever i've tried to do i've tried to unite the will of the spirit to the work of the flesh that's a spiritual journey most spirituality which all of us have to. have to deal with what you call that or not call it conscience i was never an athame as to. letters because i didn't think i learned how and then i died after casein had been. killed for about three weeks my daughter read a poem and. you know the last couple of hindsight if we the people let them continue another mother will meet i have a duty to lease the least you know till people buy store. it's the guys are stuck

where you. go back we are various they're fun for us it's a way house for. their. people i guess if i didn't object to some obvious injustice i couldn't live with myself i thought well i can't make a difference unless i'm going to try at least some of the damage on my deathbed and say at least i tried to make a difference when i thought we were getting deployed we live in ohio so we just threw everything in a van and moved back home 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 lots of stuff to turn back to the unit. so i can get out without paying too much money. i'm going to do things. they are back from iraq on july twenty fourth that's the day utah celebrates its statehood and so you know

there's like tons of fireworks parades and things like that it was a bad day to come home as a soldier it's loud sounds when it's really jittery but in the middle of i would wake up and i would think it was still right. he called me one night and said when i come home i have to do something that this war spending the year in iraq is a military journalist 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 can you just watch the movie i guess or not part of the lie and he told me to go watch it so i kind of understand some of the feelings he was coming from i felt connection to run cold and you know he was just this veteran you've been protesting war for decades you know and i photo i was finding his footsteps i

heard you took me back i just the horses were his crazy ideas and then n.p.r. news. when family member said it was really a dream i just said i'm going to spank him it's hard because protesting is kind of a paradox you need to do something crazy enough to get the media and people to pay attention to you at the same time it can be so crazy that people think you're insane and you lose all credibility he kept thinking of these ridiculous ideas. illegal things like. south. places going on a hunger strike and then finally it came to me i thought all walk the link that you thought it would be about five hundred miles it would take me about twenty seven days and we were going to publicize it and have people invited to come with us i could to hopefully speak with people started to bait have a dialogue instead of just. chanting a slogan or waving

a sign in someone's face and i figured walking it's pretty normal i think people walk every day right it's not too bizarre it's not going to do this you know right if you are right on to something very simple we're such non-controversial this everything. look. 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 into drugs 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 felt that. yeah he needed to stop. the read a statement he should have the highest approval 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

of utah ease of the predominant faith she says she's he looks like a normal utah nice not on the fringe she's not being mean drawn so. state of utah as a whole i think is extremely conservative by that term i mean resistant to change you tom still really like george bush they like him as a guy they would mind having 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 bush. and others because you are purposely. this is because you fear my amateur and one of the one of the. command had one of the new now don't know whether it is. an eight or shad eight hear them bob don't know which one it is but one of them shady things liberal if you meant disease. and i want to fight it out like what about right kev i disagree with him it's not just age

isn't genetic defect diseases can be cured. i mean you're starting out you want to spread the word and let people know that you have no budget no influence no connections to the. pioneers citizenry. is a. shit load. that's such. a. shit load it. for shit let's talk a. little bit tense use the press releases we got a website a network news with six hundred invited politicians from both parties i talked to an orthopedic doctor i talked to the physical trainer we publicize that we got

permits to walk sever protest from the students so my family and friends together they all chipped in everyone and seemed to use their towns and their abilities to keep treating this very moment i also went through local food you'll see. what's the meanest thing anybody's ever said driving by your mother it's a pretty bad you can imagine them all out of jail or where we have libeled that make up that one other person all. because i think it is very important because the president needs to be there every week like people before and. i said something. to. look at it it looks like. pulled it off. looked like it.

looked. like it looked good. i think you are stupid if you're not leading on all issues like you know you're right there and told us that they haven't been there they have no idea what it's like there they don't thing i've no idea what i've been on the ground i thought i've been there. but they are here and why we're here. i don't think it's a communication i think and take it with you don't offer we don't support the troops. but i wish the kids were doing peacemaking. amy goodman is the host of democracy now its really popular news program and she was coming to town to do a book signing she's come to salt lake three people independently one of them told her hey while you're here in salt lake you should interview this army surgeon she calls up that night and we were expecting you know the next day we were down there

in salt lake doing interviews maybe goodman is going to announce. today ted democracy now explosive army reservist marshall thompson he spent a 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 red in the nation to protest war at this point it doesn't matter why we go into the war or what the partisan politics well matters is the two soldiers die every day on average and any any way that we can in this war one day soon is to lie and say that i would walk five hundred miles for that i would walk a thousand miles for that. 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 on my walk. a lot of people said i just hope you keep walking to mexico or you leave this country we don't want you. gavan said that he wished that i had died in iraq because then i would have been honorable. so i was about to go speak to 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 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 told you that would be arrested for trying to walk you actually believe one of some was walking i really don't know why there was just arrest them unchecked he says that i can't walk on the sidewalk myself because i reasoned through the sidewalk but would like you to do this could you tell your superiors to

do we can just arbitrarily decide to meet me didn't choose policy from other people . and. so will not be. but i'm. on to i'm sorry and i was just you just the right of you just wants to play while. you're trying to arrest me yeah seriously the rest. of. your has to be believed in the american press to walk down the street we're in way over our heads we don't know what we're doing luckily my father in law is 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 in iraq war veteran to walk down the street without being arrested. tissues of toilet paper imodium ibuprofen camel back butter and water walkie talkie cell phone ring tone pants and then calories like trail mix or get in get or it can

this is a good start. it's the morning of the walking. and everything is pretty much ready . for good weather if nothing else this walk moving me over make me feel like i'm doing my best right so nobody shows up i just washed in the rain all day it was thought i. was. not saying this to say with an adult son but the banging. sound just start running because in the coming i mean this funny. getting to gather. shyness i'm glad dowling venezuela get out there with

downloading a new get on the machines without the sound the same spiel that it's again looking to sing us to go. by the time we are to the point where people are going to walk through the return stuff or the scum the first test of this crazy stuff is going to work you know in around that corner and there is a bigger group than i could manage and there is probably one hundred fifty people which respond how mike will get that's a lot. that was amazing that just feel so good i feel at that moment i thought i could finally come home everybody. it's just wonderful to see so many people here in one piece thanks so much. total thanks. i'm all right let's start walking. when i see the sun in the states then they say no get up stand up. stand. he said get up stand

up to start sounding the give up the fight. to give it. my name is john shawn morning and i came down 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. and saw the income. we're going to turn the whole world around. what can the world can't survive with with the scores going on and on no this has to happen. within the it's. there is a change in tide in america and you're part of it today we're sending

a 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 and we support a plan for. this morning to become real to the american people the military is a war america is not and that needs to change. way . to get them here because my dad isn't me that and the way they were affected him. made her in some. this is a 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

gandhi's. gandhi's walk his walk to the sea this is a big deal i think it will call attention to the fact that a lot of people feel similar you know similarly to the way he feels deep down inside but maybe they're afraid to voice their opinion even just a small demonstrations going to make community aware that hey we exist and i think it will help people think. when somebody from the u.s. military a soldier. sees what's going on over there. 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 is that 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 commit ourselves now whether or not we are for the you know being committed or not we're there now and we need to get committed to the cause but i would much rather die for a cause then for to just die in vain i mean we've cut and run now all those people died in vain all it's time for us to pull ourselves up by 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 up the canyon starting then and this is dog door again a better. america in honoring his willingness to speak out community about this that's why i came down oh you're on the air. yeah you're the worst 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 when you better start paying attention to president bush and what we want you to do we are over there for a good cause we have found. now destruction weapons whatever and you know what my loved one came home and you know what you have to get back to work your five children here at the port what on earth are you doing around you one and why did we get a loved one and a mother want to support you when you know what we're. for the country over there i don't know i as a mother i can pour president bush and what he signs he's been farting not you and you know what my opinion of this guy walking i think is crazy i think there's an easier way to get a point across the more across the state of utah in the one nine hundred sixty s. to be an activist an anti-war activist was considered generally. try to disreputable not really ethical thing to do and i think that's still true today

people are. protesting 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 enders they're in their pot smokers. or demonstrators protest us in. estimated one out of. a couple. simply. states. just. she said it's. this is. the problem if you

list you just. listen to. this. she. says. that must be a. good thing the military they tell you that the people protesting the war and this mistress will tell you the same thing that this one should be sort of heavy and something. for you or against the troops and what is that it's exactly the opposite i mean think about the leaders in the piece it's iraq that trans against the war it's veterans for peace it's military families speak out it's gold star families for peace these are four organizations that are the leaders of the peace

movement that are all surrounded by the military part of military families speak out that's true but the group are worried and it. will start. i open my door at eight o'clock. am there was a military court i want to. order. it like this you don't wake up. from that day i realize that unless. i can walk back to it's not. too many of your family for good or for your. people good boys. i sit. down on the survivor and i'm

looking to go thank you thank you so much yeah i must see both of you i'm. the democratic candidate for congress in the first district i was honored. except the invitation to be part of this my names to dash down a runner for u.s. senate for utah and i'm here to support marshall because i think what he's doing so great and i want him as larry can agree with him so much so that you i just got out of the army myself i was active duty army for five years one of the rank of a sergeant i'm here to support arsenal this group is for the cause and i 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 a change. the culture is that so much different each musician has

a price on the market as the list starts its military withdrawal from iraq what does faith hold for the kurds and if the kurds strive towards an independent state .