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one. war correspondent who's taken almost a. walk to talk people out of war. we .

do. what i came home it was amazing it 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 it's a i'm really glad to be home and proud of my service but i am against or 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 push happened that day to an impatient look at him and so many people on the field one hundred plus the two seen them as you know maybe it was. a. leap. at least something that.

pleases. pitifully. simply. a. lot of. my whole life from whatever i've tried to do i've tried to unite the will of the spirit to the work of the flesh or that's a spiritual journey my school spirituality which all of us have to. have to deal with whether you call it that or not calling truncheons i was never an aft in the last. letters because i didn't think i learned how and then i died after casein have been. killed for about three weeks my daughter in a poem and in the last couple of hindsight if we the people let them continue another mother will meet i have a duty to go east the east you know tell people my story. it's the guys are stuck

or. you know a couple so they go back there is they're fine for us so we asked for. their house. people like us 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 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 were living 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 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 this. 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 as loud sounds when it's really jittery in the middle of the night 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 to help end this war spending the year in iraq as 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 that i watch it so i kind of understand some of the feeling seals coming from i felt a connection to ron coding you know he was this special he's been protesting war for decades you know and i photo i was finding his footsteps pretty pretty bad and

i just thought horses were his crazy idea and then n.p.r. . well family members there is 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 in the same time it can be so crazy that people think you're insane you lose all credibility he kept thinking of these ridiculous ideas and illegal things like. south sudan 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 i do it would take me about twenty seven days and we were going to publicize it and have people invited to come along 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 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 i've been 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 keep she looks like a normal utah he's not on the friendship he's not being mean draw on. state of utah as a whole i think is extremely conservative and by that term i mean resistant to change speech on still really like george bush and like him as a guy would mind having a glass of milk with him 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 both. because there's a republican to. visit because if you remember the turkey and one of the one of the. command had one of the new and i don't know whether it. ended eight or sad eight here. bob don't know which one it is but one of them shady things liberality meant disease. and i wanted to fight it out like what about right kev i disagree

with him it's not to say he didn't get nettie to fight diseases can be cured. i mean you're starting out you want to spread the word and let people know you have no budget no influence no connections how do you do that. citizenry. is a. shit load. that's such. a. shit load it. for shit. it tends to stop press releases we've 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 over protesting the students so my family and friends together they all chipped in everyone can seem to use their towns in your abilities to keep treating this momentum but i also went through local food you'll see. what's the meanest thing anybody's ever said driving by your mother that it's a pretty bad economy. than a lot of families where we have libeled that make up but that one other person all. didn't like it it's very important i think the president needs to be there every week like people look for and. i said something. to. look at it looks like. pulled it off. look look look look look look

look look look look look look look look look look. i think you're stupid if you're likely to whine all you like you're trash. until she does have you been there you have no idea what like they are they don't think 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 not clear indication i think and take it with you don't offer and 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 the goodman is going to announce. today ted democracy now explosive army reservist marshall thompson dispensing year in iraq working as a military journalist the son of a former you time they are now plans to walk across his home state the red in the nation to protest for this point it doesn't matter why we got into the war or what the partisan politics were about well matters is that two soldiers die every day on average and any any way that we can in this war one day soon is to light saved and 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 they got this electronic bravery and they would really say some crazy things one guy rode 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 when you leave this country i want you here. what 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 a 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 me that i would be arrested for trying to actually believe that one of them was walking i really need to know wonder why he just arrest them unchecked he shows that i can't walk on the sidewalk myself because i have a reason to walk 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 just in the room you just want to play while. you're trying to arrest me yeah seriously the rest. of. the story has to be believed in the american press to wall 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 wasn't fact my right as a u.s. citizen and iraq war veteran to walk down the street without being arrested. this use of toilet paper imodium i can proof and camelback butter and water walkie talkie cell phone ring tone pants and then calories like trail mix or get in gator

eat ok that 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 with me feel better make me feel like i'm doing my best right so nobody shows up i just sloshes around all day it was thought i. was. saying. it's the same with an adult son let the bang out of the. sound just start running because in the coming of the night in this funny. getting together. shyness i'm glad darling venezuela get out of that with a new get on the sheets without the sound the same spiel that it's

a good look at this thing i think. by the time we got to the point where people were going to walk with me the return stuff or the scum the first test of this crazy stuff was going to work and i went around that corner and there was a bigger group than i could manage and there was probably one hundred fifty people which respond how mike will get not so hot. and that was amazing that i 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 who want peace thanks so much. total thank you. all right let's start walking let them. when i see the sun in the six then they say no get up stand up. stand. he said get up stand up

to some sound get love the give up the. mind and it's done sean 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 this during the civil rights movement. and saw the outcome. we're going to turn the whole world around. but what can the world can't survive with with the spores going on and on no this has to happen. within the. there's a changing 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 specially 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. the . way. i get time here because my my dad is in me on that and the way the war affected him . made her in some cases. 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

gandhi's. gandhi's walk news want to 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 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 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 is it 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've got to fight smarter we 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 it to 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 here and. this is dog crow oregon. 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 why 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 find children here at the port what on earth are you doing around you one and why did we have loved one as a mother one of the people are you and you know what we're. for the country over there i don't think though i had a mother i think or president bush and what he thought he's been starting. 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 cross the state of utah in the one nine hundred sixty s. to be an activist an anti-war activist was considered generally. sort of disreputable and 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 you know the people who protested in phoenix near you know they're dead enders and they're in their pot smokers. admiral gehman's traitorous protest us and. estimated one how to. take up a. simple. straight . face and seriously she said just take that. this is. closer to this

list you just. listed. just. as she. says. that must be. done in the military they tell you that the people protesting the war and the smiths rachel tell you the same thing that there's just one sure thing sort of heavy and something. for you learn 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 for 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 and i want to. order. it like this you don't want to go. from that day i realized that unless. i took a walk back to. get to many more families for good or for a lot. of people give voice to. when i am. sitting. down on the survivor and i'm looking to go i think 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 name's pete ashdown a runner for u.s. senate for utah and i'm here to support marshall because i think what he's doing is a great i want him as larry can agree with him so much that 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 i've really support 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 sent packages or put a sticker on their car or they want you to do this supporting a troop is supporting a change. twenty

years ago the largest country. to serve today to the first. place had been trained. to teach began a journey. where did it take the. culture is that so much different each musician has the power of mind to mark let me feel it starts its military withdrawal from iraq what does faith hold for the kurds and if the kurds strive towards an independent state.