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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 had seen a year and it was just almost too good to be true i 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 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 enlisted listening to an enemy because the put it happened that day to. get him in so many people on the one hundred plus troops to the two senior mizuno maybe oppose. the salt lake. city. police saying. at least.

please. please please let. me. 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 whether you call that or not call it conscience i was never an aft in the last two . letters because i didn't think i learned how and then i died after casein had been. killed for about three weeks my daughter ran a crime and. in the last couple of hindsight if we the people own let them continue another mother will meet i have a duty to lease the least you know people by store. it's the guys are stuck or.

you know a couple so they all go back we are there is there fun for us so we house fire. and the house. people like us 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 l.a. some of the damage done 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 what's the stuff i turn back to you know. so i can get out without paying too much money. i'm going to do this. you know back from iraq on july twenty fourth that's the day you toss 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 mean it's really jittery in the middle but i'd wake up and i looked at least in iraq. 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 some iraqis and they said they wanted the u.s. presence gone just watch the movie i guess born on the fourth of july and he told me that i watch it so i kind of understand some of the feelings he was coming from i felt a connection to run cooking you know he was this special you've been protesting war

for decades you know and i focused like i was finding his footsteps pretty pretty bad and i just thought horses were just crazy ideas and then n.p.r. . well 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 and illegal things like. south. places going on a hunger strike and then finally it came to me i thought oh 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 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 i think people walk every day right too bizarre not to do this you know right up to our right to do something very simple we're such non-controversial. everything to. look. for us this is really a 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 he looks like a normal utah nice not on the friendship he's not banging drums so. state of utah as a whole i think is extremely conservative and by that term i mean resistant to change on still really like george bush you know i can 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 bush. and others because a republican. is a because if you are my military and one of the one of the. command had one of the new and i don't know whether it. an eight or shad eight here. bob don't know which one it is but one of them shady things liberal little million disease. and i want to fight it out with

a lot of the right kind of i disagree with aim is not does agent good net effect got 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 here's. a. little. that's. going to be something. you shit load it up. for. it let's talk a. little bit tense loosen up press releases we've got a website a network with six hundred invited politicians from both parties i talked to an

orthopedic doctor i talked to the physical trainer we publicize that we go permits who are protesting the students my family and friends together they all chipped in everyone can seem to use their towns and their abilities she treated this free moment i also went to the street you'll see. what's the meanest thing anybody's ever said driving by your mother it's pretty bad you can imagine them all out of jail or wherever libel can make up but if it's one other person all. because i think it is very important i think that the president needs to be there every week like people look for a long time since some. good. looking looking to pull it off. look look

look look look look look look look look look look look look. i think you're stupid if you're not illegal why don't you just you know you're right . i'm told us that they've never been there they 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 for why we're here. might just make it clear indication that you can 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 sergeant she

calls up that night and we were expecting to hear the next day we were down there in salt lake during the interview phoebe goodman is going to announce. today ted democracy now exposed to 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 in the nation to protest for this point it doesn't matter why we go into the war or what the partisan politics were about well matters is the two soldiers dying every day on average and any any way that we can in this war one day soon is two lives 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 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 you keep walking to mexico when you leave this country when 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 we had 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 they 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 i can't believe one of the symbols walking i mean you don't know why they're walking you just arrest them unchecked he says that i can't walk down the sidewalk by 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't just arbitrarily decide to meet me didn't choose policy from other people. and. so will not be. but i'm. i'm sorry and i was just you just the part of you just wants to like why did you not try to arrest me yet to see you arrest me. for last year 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 and iraq war veteran to walk down the street without being arrested. this use of toilet paper imodium proof and camel back butter and water walkie talkie cell phone ring cone 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 washed in the rain all day it was thought i. was. saying. it's the same with an adult son let the bang out of the. sound just like burning does in the coming in the night in this funny. getting together. shyness i'm glad barrington is saying get out of that wind

in loud again and again on the street without the sound the same spiel that it's again looking to sing us to god. but by the time we got to the point where people are going to walk with me to read the kind of stuff that 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 response time i quoted 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 who want peace so thanks so much. wonderful. i'm all right let's start walk and let them. when i see the sun in the states then i'm not they say no get up stand up. stand. he said get up stand

up to some sound get love the give up sign. my name is john shawn morning and i came down from oregon i heard he 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 moon come. we're going to turn the whole world around. what can the world can't survive with with the spores going on and on no this has to happen. to be. 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 then needs to change. way . to get them here because my dad is a meat mom dad and the way the war affected him. made her in some cases. 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 is 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 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 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 right 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 groomer 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 know the worst nightmare for us. 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 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 have loved one as a mother one of the people are you and you know what there are. for the country over there i don't think i had a mother i think or president bush and what he thought he's been through aren't. you and you know what my opinion of this guy walker i think has created 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. 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 when i talk to them you know the people who protested in phoenix near you know they're dead enders and they're in their pot smokers. admiral gehman strivers protest your ass and. estimated what have. they cut. straight. to conservation seriously she said it's a tough.

this is. just in the process of listing just to. listen to. just. the. young. people. he says. that must be. in the military they tell you that the people protesting the war and the smiths rachel tell you the same thing that this one should be sort of hippie and something . for you they're against the troops and what is that it's exactly the opposite i mean think about the leaders in the piece it's ironic 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. all starts with my door at eight o'clock. am there was a military court i wanted to. order. it like this you don't wake up. from that day i realize that unless. i want to. get too many more family for good or for the war. people good for you like. i mean i keep. coming down the street 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 my name is to dash down i'm running for u.s. senate for utah and i'm here to support marshall because i think what he's going to grade on a missile larry can agree with me so much so that i just got out of the army myself i was active duty army for five years one of the rank of sergeant i'm here to support arsenal this year was for the cause enough and we've let 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 posting under car or they want you to do this supporting the troops supporting a change. the

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