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the week. when 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 with my daughter that i had seen for a year and it was just almost too good to be true it was going to. at the same time though there's only so wonderful because it's been the last year away from them in iraq which is terrible and so when the 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 going 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 listed as having a significant maybe because of what is happening that states will be an amazing man looks good and so saying he's one meal one hundred plus the two senior misses you know maybe it was. something in the salt lake. city. police saying. at least something

that. the police and the mit police. simply be. a. hopeless. my whole life and whatever i've tried to do i've tried to unite the will of the spirit of the work of the flesh or that's a spiritual journey my space and spirituality which all the stuff you. have to deal with whether you call it that or not call it conscience i was never an athame as to i never march german letters because i didn't think it would house and then i died after casey had been. killed for about three weeks my daughter hannah climbed. in and the last couple of lines that if we the people rather than continue another

mother will be if i have a duty to lease the least you know till people buy store. it's the guys who are stuck or are you you know couple so they're all go back there it's they're fine for us somewhere else for. their. people like us if i didn't object to some obvious injustice i couldn't live with myself if i can't make a difference at least someone try listening in 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 from the banner to fact 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. it's looking good out without paying too much money. i'm going to do.

i packed them are back on july twenty fourth that's the day you toss over braids it's statehood and so you know there's like tons of fireworks raids and things like that it was a bad day to come home was so loud sounds that it's really jittery in the limited like that but i looked it was the right. he called me one night. when i come home i have to do something that mr clark spending a year in iraq isn't going to trade journalist i saw so much waste going on with the u.s. contractors i saw so many soldiers not having a clear mission and 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've asked for no parts for life and he told me to go watch it so i kind of understand some of the feelings you probably i both

connection to run cooking you know he was this is a veteran who's been protesting war for decades you know and i photo it was for them is what steps are pretty pretty yeah i just the horses were just crazy or anything here and there. where there may be a resource really dream and i just said i think it's great you know 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 and you lose all credibility he kept thinking of these ridiculous ideas and fair legal things like. snatch a ansell you know places that going on a hunger strike and then finally it came to me i thought i'll walk the link if you thought it would be about five hundred miles i did it would take me about twenty seven days and we were going to publicize it and have people invited become law.

yes i think to hopefully speak when people start a debate have a dialogue instead of just. chanting the slogan or we can assign some space and i think you're walking it's pretty normal people walk every day right so it's a bizarre it's not be tedious to write a book right on to something very simple we're such non-controversial people this everything. looks. for us this is really been raised and during the vietnam era when the peaceniks were a bunch of weird people they were hippies and and drugs and that kind of stuff and i just didn't want my son to be associated with that kind of thing but. he really felt that they are. looking to sell. as the read

a statement they 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 tease he's keeps you looks like a normal utah is not on the fringe he's not banging drums state of utah as a whole i think is extremely conservative and by that term i mean resistant to change speech i'm still really like george bush they like him as a guy they would mind having a glass of milk with them or be or if they're that kind of time i support president bush totally with sand and all the people fight for our country because that's what it's all about i support bush. and it is because you are purposely. is because you fear my military and what is it one of the. band had one of the new and i don't know how the british. an eight or shad eight here. claim god don't know which one it is but one of them say he thinks liberal it is

a million disease. and i want to fight it out with what about and i tell you i disagree with him is not does a decision get netting to fake cunt diseases can be cured. i mean you started out you want to spread the word and you have no budget no influence no connections how do the. citizenry here thanks for. a. little. sleep the to play a piece of. shit load it. for. it. looked at it. recent press releases we got a website

a network news with such good 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 see the fuser towns in her abilities which she created this very moment i also went through local food you will see. what the meanest thing anybody's ever said driving by your mother it took. them a lot of. libel and let me talk about it and one other person all looked at it like it is very important i think the president looking at every week likely more and. i said something look look look look look look look look look look look look look

look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look. look look look look look look look look. look look like. i presume this newsgroup here don't want to push you to not under pressure or photos have they never been near them nor do you look like they are they don't think i'm the one you will look what i've been on the ground i thought i've. been there for here but why were there. i just make it up and communication then you can take it with you don't offer a we don't support the troops you support. but i wish the character he's making. amy goodman is the host of democracy now it's 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 and she calls up that night and we were expecting to see how the next day we were down there in salt lake do the interview maybe goodman is going to roddy. today ted democracy now exposed army reservist marshall thompson to spend 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 directs the nation to protest war at this point it doesn't matter why we got into the war or what the partisan politics were about what matters is that two soldiers die every day on average and in the any way that we can in this war one day soon as tonight saint and i would walk five hundred miles for that i would walk a thousand miles from. some people said some terrible things not never to my face you know but in even now they got this

electronic bravery and they really say so and he 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 or you leave this country going on here. and one gave and said that he wished that i had died in iraq. you can see that i would have been honorable. so i was about to go speak to utah state to help promote the walk and 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 and 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 you arrested a person or was it actually could be one of the symbols walking i mean you don't know why they are watching you just arrest them and check the shows that i can walk

on the sidewalk when we stop because i have a reason for sidewalk but would like you to do this could you tell your superiors to do we can just arbitrarily decide to meet me to insurance policy from other people don't count and. so will. my mum. i'm sorry and i was just interested in the previous ones to play for kids don't try to harass me yeah seriously you're asking. because you believe that emergency rescue walk down the street clearing way over our heads we don't know we're going luckily my father in law is a boy and so so he got in touch with e.c.l. you together they were able to convince the attorney general of utah. it that it was in fact my right as a us citizen and in iraq war veteran to walk down the street without being arrested . and this use of toilet paper imodium i've been proven camelback by

underwater work he thought cell phone ring tone hands and then calories like trail mix are good in theory and this is a good start. it's the morning of the walking. dead and everything is pretty much ready. for good weather if nothing else this walk with me thunder make me feel like they. did my best right so no mission is the biggest source of the rain all day really thought i. was. just not saying. it's the same planets on the bank. sounds just like burning as in the cold mindedness money away.

getting get. shyness away in the sun and get that wind in love again to get on those sheets without the sound doesn't feel good it's a good looking to sing a few. by the time we're up to the point where people are going to walk me through the return stuff of the skunk first test of this crazy something we're. going around that corner and there is a big you and i could not sing this probably one hundred fifty people which the first small comic will get not so hot. and that was amazing that it's been so good i thought about a moment i thought i could finally come home everybody. it's . one one piece so many people here who want things said thanks so much. it's wonderful. all right let's start walking. when i say son in the states then i said no get

up stand up. stand up. he said get up stand up to some sound get the legs out give up the by. the. finest on the song morning and 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. vietnam era. and saw the low income. we're going to true home world around. what more 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 a 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 a man needs to change. to get them here because night night dad is a neat nonfat in the way they were affected him on the need for. some. is it 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 feel similarly to the way he feels deep down inside but maybe they're afraid to voice serve genuine even just a small demonstration 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 that 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 because states we've got to put together we've got to fight smarter we'll 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 guy for a cause then for it 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 at a 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 started then and this is dog oregon it better be a power saw 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.

to end up in there i'm sorry you don't know me don't laugh at me you know whacked because you are and you know what you better start to program good and what we want you we are all there for a good cause we have found. that destruction and whatever and you know what my loved one came home and you don't want to get back to work you're my job and he had a point what on earth are you doing around if you want it and why should we get a lump of one of them under one for you and you know what yeah. for the country over there i don't know i have a mother i think for president bush and what he signed even for art not you and you know what my opinion of this guy walking i think is crazy i think there's an easy way to get a point across from walk 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

disrupt it all and not really ethical thing to do and i think that's still true that people are. protesting this is this is this is what i hear from people i talk to you know the people who protest or if he is near you know they're dead enders nearing their pot smokers. traitorous protest us and. estimated. make up the. state. of the state. she said just.

this is. from this list. just. listed. in the military they tell you that the people protesting the war or the smiths rachel tell you the same thing that the small sure some of the. more you learn against the troops and what it is that it's exactly the opposite i mean think about the leaders in the peace sarette veterans 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 we're. all sort of. my door at eight o'clock. and there was a military record. for. it like. i realize the level. of. work to. get too many more families are going to. get caught or more.

i. keep. coming down to survivor 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 the first district i was honored. except the invitation to be part of. my name st ashdown i'm running for u.s. senate for utah and i'm here to support marshall because i think what is known as a great name is larry and it means so much to you i just got out of the army myself as i could be army for five years one of the rank of a sergeant i'm here to support arsenal this really started causing us to leave the people you know people need to be aware of what's going on the world right now the great majority of the active duty army supports this and they want more of this they don't want to put it you know some packages are posted on your car or they want you to do this supporting a troop is supporting a change. the

mood. is just. it's just. to. say. twenty years ago largest country. to such a place it's just. what had been

trying. to teach began the journey. where did it take.