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coming. and. we. were right they were oh it was amazing. i was honestly one of the best friends of

mine right i thought i was going to pass out i was so happy. there was my wife and my daughter that had seemed ready here and it was just almost too good to be true it was wonderful. of the same time though it was only so wonderful because i'd spent the last year away from them in iraq which was 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 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 knowns going to know the truth about what's going on in iraq. just.

puts a. slight list of things a spin it may be disappointing sabse net states will be seen in places where it looks good and so for people on the field one hundred plus to the to the city seems to me as you know maybe a push. in the salt lake. city. police is. at least something that. pleases. the belief. that if. the love of. my whole life and whatever i've

tried to do i've tried to unite the will of the spirits of the work of the flesh for that's a spiritual journey my space and spirituality which all of us have to. have to deal with whether you call it that or not call it conscience i was never an ass in this story i never marched through my letters because i didn't think i learned how and then i died after casein have been. killed for about three weeks my daughter ran a poem. you know the last couple of lines that if we the people own rights and continue another mother will be i would do the least the least you know tell people by store. it's the guys are stuck or. you know a couple so they all go back there it's their fun for us so we asked for. their house. what if i didn't object to some obvious injustice i couldn't live with myself i love

a challenge and if i had someplace i'm going to try listening to them on my deathbed and say at least i tried to make it right when i thought we were getting deployed we were living in ohio so we just threw everything to the van a true 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 the. class looking good 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 utah celebrates its statehood and so you know there's like tons of fireworks trades and things like that it was a bad day to come home with some well it sounds great it's really jittery but then a little bit like that but i would think it was the right. he called me one night and his son when i come home i have to do something from

this war spending the year in iraq as a military journalist i saw so much waste going on with the u.s. contractors i saw so many soldiers not having a clear mission or just kind of wasting their time trying not to get killed for a year and then i talk 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 that i watch at sight i don't understand some of the feeling seals come from i thought connection wrong coding you know he was this special you've been protesting were for decades you know and i photo i was holding his footsteps pretty pretty right or something it's very easy here and there. where they are maybe a researcher is really doing 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 use of credibility he kept thinking of these ridiculous ideas and then legal things like. we had to sell in places that are going on a hunger strike and then finally it came to me i thought all walk the length of 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 had people invited to come up. yes i think hopefully speak with people started to bait have a dialogue instead of just. chanting a slogan or waving a sign some space and i figured walking that's pretty normal people walk every day right that is are not going to do this to write a book right on to something very simple worse that's non-controversial it just 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 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 killed our. young people to stop. the read a statement he said 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 how do you top ease of the predominant faith she says she's he looks like a normal utah is 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 see tom still really like george bush they like him as

a guy they don't 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 i'll support bush. and it is because he's a republican and. this is because you fear my military and what is it one of the. command had one of the new and i don't know whether it. can eight or shad eight here. bado know which one it is but one of them said he thinks liberal it is a million disease and i want to fight now because what about my kind of i disagree with him it's not diseases that get nettie to fight cunt diseases can be cured. i mean you starting out you want to spread the word and you have no budget no influence no connections to the. citizenry here's.

a. little. slipped. a. shit load it. up for. it along. with the press releases we got a website a network news with six food invited politicians from both parties i talk to an orthopedic doctor that talks music and physical trainer we publicize that we go permits to walk over protesting students so my family and friends together they all chipped in everyone can seem to use their towns or abilities she created this very moment i also went through local food you will see.

what the meanest thing anybody's ever said driving by a. party you can imagine them all out of jail in real life will that make up that one other person look at it like it is very important i think the president needs to be there every week like people are going on and says 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 at all. look look look look at it look look look look look look look look look look look look look. i prefer to live here and likely why not appreciate them now that you're right there. was a big number in there they have no idea who looks like they are they don't know

what you will look what i've been on the ground i thought i'd heard. but they are here for whatever this. might just make it something communication that you can take it with you don't love it and we don't support the troops. but i wish the troops are doing well he's making. amy goodman is the host of the marcus you know it's 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 you're here and so if you should interview this army surgeon and she calls up that night and we were expecting to have the next day we're done there's always do the interview t.v. goodman is going to announce. today democracy now explosive army reservist marshall thompson he spent a year in iraq working as a military journalist the son of a former u. conn they are now plans to walk across his home state the red state and the nation

to protest for this point it doesn't matter why we go into the war or what the partisan politics will matters as the two soldiers die every day on average and any any way that we can in this war one day soon as 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 either they got this electronic bravery and they really say so or you see 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 died in iraq. because that then i would have been honorable. so i was

about to go 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 a 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 piece which when you told me that i would be arrested for trying to trash can't believe one of them was walking my we don't know why there was just arrest him and checked he says that i can't walk on the sidewalk myself 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 and insurance policy from other people. and. so will you take. my money. on the contrary and i was just just a little nervous mostly like why are. you going to try to arrest me yet to see

your rescue. of. most americans can you believe the americans and rescue walk down the street clearing the 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 view that if it wasn't that way right as a u.s. citizen and iraq war veteran to walk down the street without being arrested. and his use of toilet paper imodium ibuprofen camelback butter and water walkie talkie cell phone ring cone hands and then calories like trail mix or do you. think this is a good start well it's the morning of the walking. dead and everything's pretty much ready. for good weather if nothing else just walking me through better make me feel like they found my best. so nobody shows up i just washed in the rain all day

it is thought i. was. not saying. the same planets on the bang that. sound just like running doesn't feed coming to mind this funny oh and the. getting together. shyness of way things will get out that wind in love get on the sheets without the sound the same spiel get it together we're going to sing a fever. but by the time we're up to the point where people are going to walk with me to return stuff like this come the first test of this crazy stuff i'm going to work going around that corner and there is a big you and i could manage and there's probably one hundred fifty people which

first of all comic will get that's a lot. that was amazing that didn't feel so good i thought at that moment i thought i could finally come home everybody. can see someone going through so many people here wanting to say thanks so much. tony. all right let's start walking. my second son in the states then he said no stand up. stand up. he said get up stand up to some sound good love those give up the phone i. give it. my name is john shawn moring and

i came down from oregon. thirty new goodman on the 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 a long. vietnam era. and saw the moon come on. we're going to turn the whole world around. what more can the world concert with with the scores going on and on no this has to happen out with to be. there is 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 you to us 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. to get them here because night night dad is immediate contact and the way to work that did him. made for. 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 watching 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 serve any and even just a small demonstrations to make 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 and 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 a state we've got to put together we 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 committed ourselves now i'd rather not we are for the you know being committed not where they are now who need to get committed to the cause but i would much rather die for a cause then for it to just die in vain i mean we've got not now all those people

died in vietnam all it's time for us to hold 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 the canyon starting here and. this is dog her again. a better. america 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. i'm going back over there i'm sorry you don't like me don't laugh at me you know whacked if you know you are and you know what you better start putting it into greater good and what you want it we are over there for a good cause we have found. that instruction whatever and you know what my loved one came home and you know what we have to get back to work fine children here on the court right on earth are you doing around you want to and why can we have not

one of them other one for you when you know what yeah we're. the country over there i don't think oh i have a mother i think for president bush and what he's been farting not you and you know me my opinion of this guy walker and i think it's crazy i think there's an easier way to get a point across the more cautiously to you and i can sixties to be an activist an anti-war activist was considered generally. sort of disreputable not really i think a 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 them if you know the people who protest or if he's near you know they're dead enders they're in their pot smokers.

are going to strike first protest us and. asked me to. take up a. simple. straight . face and. she said just take the. this is. from this list that you just. listed.

in the military they tell you that the people pose a civil war in the smiths rachel tell you the same thing that the salon should be some of the d.n.c. . for and you're against the troops what is that it's exactly the opposite i mean think about the leaders in the piece i read the transience 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 feast movement that are all surrounded by the military part military families speak out that's true but the group are worried and. i opened my door at eight o'clock. am there were there were thirty or forty. hours or. more.

of it like this. i realize. i need. to. get to many more families are going. to like a blind. i am. sitting. down the 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 the mind and spirit ashdown i'm running for u.s. senate for utah and i'm here to support marshall because i think what he's done is

a great of the names larry canada and so it's a good i just got the army myself as i could be are up for five years one of the rank of a sergeant i'm here to support arsenal that i'm going through it's part of causing up believe that people you know people need to be aware of what's going on the world right now great majority of active duty army supports a bit and they want more of this they don't want to put it you know send packages or posting under car or they want you to do this supporting a troop is supporting a change. wealthy british style. sometimes it was free. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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