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 enlisted listening to an enemy because it's a put it happened that day to. get him in so many people on the field one hundred plus the two senior misses you know maybe it was.

a. little sleep. at least. let him. sleep. at least. a. bit of. 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 or 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 this story i never marched 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 let them continue

another mother will be i have a duty to go east the east you know tell people my store. it's the guys are stuck or. you know a couple so they go back we are there it's they're fine for us somewhere else for. your 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 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 lots of stuff to turn back to you know. so i can get out without paying too

much money. i'm going to do it since. 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 in the middle but i'd 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 in 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 some iraqis and they said they wanted the u.s. presence gone can you just watch the movie i guess born on the fourth of july and

he told me to go watch it so i kind of understand some of the feeling seals coming from both connection to run coding you know he was this special he'd been protesting war for decades you know and i photo i was finding his footsteps pretty pretty bad i just thought horses were just crazy ideas and then n.p.r. . 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. 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 i did 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 and sort of just. chanting a slogan or waving a sign in someone's face and i figured walking that's pretty normal people walk every day right to 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 if this everything. look. for us this is 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 banging drums so. state of utah as a whole i think is extremely conservative and by that term i mean resistant to change the tone still really like george bush and 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 both. mothers because they were purposely and. this is because if you have my mother her him one of the one of the. command had one of the new and i don't know whether it. entertainer shad eight here. bob don't know

which one it is but one of them shady things liberal and you mentioned disease. and i want to find out which one of the right kind of i disagree with same is not disease isn't good net effect 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. a. shit load. that's such. a. shit load it comes. to. it that. it tends to stop 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 watch over protest from the students so my family and friends together they all chipped in everyone can seem to use their towns and your abilities to keep treat this three momentum i also went to the street you'll see. what's the meanest thing anybody's ever said driving by. it's a pretty bad economy. than a lot of damage where we have libeled them a couple and 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 and. i said some. pretty good.

looking looking. at it all. look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look. i think it's stupid if you're not illegal why don't you know you're right. until you guys have. been there because no one here looks 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 that's why we're here. i don't think it's a communication i think take it with you don't offer we don't support the strict discipline. but i wish the kids were doing peacemaking. 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 you know the next day we were down there in salt lake do the interview he 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 he 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 well matters is 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 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 or you leave this country we don't want you here. one guy even 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 me that i would be arrested if i try to walk you actually believe that one of them was walking and i we don't know why there was he just

arrest them unchecked he says that i can't walk down the sidewalk myself because i have a reason for 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 i'm sorry and i was just you just the part of you just wants to play while. you're trying to harass me yeah seriously you arrest me. for you're going to keep believing in the american press to walk down the street wearing 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 i can proof and camel back butter and water walkie talkie cell phone ring code pants and then calories like trail mix or gate in good or it can 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. not saying this so say with an adult son let the bang out of the. sound just start running is in the oh come on your mind this money away.

getting me get a. shyness i'm glad darling venezuela get out of that wind in love again and again on the sheets without the sound the same spiel that it's a good look at the sting of the good. but by the time we are to the point where people are going to walk with me to read the kind of stuff or discount the first test of this crazy stuff is going to work you know in around that corner and there is a big you can i could imagine it's probably one hundred fifty people which response how i quoted that's a lot. that was amazing that didn't feel so good i felt 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. wonderful thank. you. all right let's

start walking. when i say something then six then they say no get up stand up. stand. he said get up stand up to some sound get love the give up but i. never. mind the stunt show. morning when 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. vietnam era. 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 know this

has to happen. 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 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. to get them here because my my dad is in the combat and the way they were affected him. made her in some cases. 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 is walk to the 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 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'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 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 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 you are fine children here at the port what on earth are you doing around you one and why did we i want one as a mother want to support you when you know what there are. for the country over there i don't know i had a mother i think or president bush and what he signed he's been through aren't. 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. sort of 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 you know the people who protesters in phoenix near you know they're dead enders they're in their pot smokers. admiral gehman's traitorous protest your ass and do not. estimated one how to. make up a. simple. state . just a. little she said it's. ok.

this is. the problem with this list you just. listed. just. as she. says. 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 heavy and something . for you or against the troops and what fun is that it's exactly the opposite

i mean think about the leaders in the peace it's iraqi 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 there i realize that unless. i need to walk back to it's not. too many more families that are for the are. not good for.

i think you. have. the survivor all right i'm looking to go thank you thank you so much yeah i must be both into. the democratic candidate for congress in the first district i was honored. except the invitation to be part of this st ashdown i'm running 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 me so much so that i just got out of the army myself to the army for five years one of the rank of a sergeant i'm here to support our soul to 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 send packages or put a sticker on their car or they want you to do this supporting the troops supporting

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welcome you're watching r.t. and run to provoke week's top stories with me kevin i mean first of all the developing news this afternoon at least one woman has died after a passenger boat carrying more than one hundred seventy sank on the river of all good now these are the first images we've got of the rescue scene in the total stan republican central russia little to see of the boat sank in deep water so many of those on board have been rescued dozens of passengers remain unaccounted for sarah first following the latest developments for us it's now six hours since i went down what is the latest you know one of the rescue teams saying. we know that one person

has been confirmed more than eighty people have been rescued but the majority of the passengers on board that cruise ship on the vocals are still to be rescued and there's conflicting reports about this he was still missing and now we know there are one hundred eighty passengers on board a hundred and twenty five and then i would pass just and fifty seven of them were actually claim and there's and we know that the helicopter and a number of divers and rescue have been dispatched in a working at the moment on the scene as that rescue operation continues to oversee deep concerns that they still mistake the focus here for an incredibly wide with a very popular at this time of year cleese's which is exactly what this was the ship that bulgaria i was traveling from boulder. and i was about fifteen miles from . when it went down when it sank and just a couple of kilometers from shore of course as we said a lot of those people still missing and yet people who we can hear.