you know what is that my name is fernando suarez del solar the project i'm the director and founder of the gradual take up peace project i'm fighting against militarism against the war just like my son alberto sweat as does

a lot of us died on march twenty seventh two thousand and three he was not an american citizen he was the first american soldier from mexico to die during the invasion of iraq. i. am. chase i'm fighting to avoid the next war to keep other young people with hopes and dreams just. like my son pesos going from being grabbed by the claws of american militarism. put in which i fight for p.c.'s for the us. to mr. that i think will you. give me can i speak with you share with me didn't just play. so many nights. have died in your act my son died i

don't agree you don't agree we don't blubber of him my son is in the arena i don't know what is crap we are going to be for you fair. you going to be with me my sone if marine died in iraq i need peace off if you do original films. but he will always be remembered. yes. i repeat. independent of the war he might be that you want a society that i support the marine corps specifically but please. link. to the boys. and we will serve to make sure you often feel left out for the rest of.

his source was an ordinary boy. it after years he was mischievous. like to tease his sisters but he loved them a lot but oh let's get him or draw. this is one of you to be a policeman until when a single when he was thirteen he met the military recruiters in san diego v.a. when. sent on the it was. a little they told him that if he and rolled in the us army later he could join the. drug enforcement agency to become an international

police officer in the back. to the vision of it we made the decision to move to the us under pressure from places and alleviate the only. just beginning for they wanted to join the us army and. just all this you see we sold our home and our laundering business in tijuana and we started a new life here which i don't and akki. said but he exercised kept his weight studied to get good grades around and then when i was going to vegas you. are going to a recruiter told him if he served for just one year get out of it qualify for the da. so i finally give my consent to feed him and he enlisted when he was seventeen and a half and all the shit you see me. he

was a camp pendleton when nine eleven happened to. me if you have to know why you like thousands of other parents about it we thought there will be a war. backstory and you have been sent. to me to february first he said father in four days i'm leaving for iraq. as an embedded journalist going to a unit. that has to some the very first day of the war going to go. he was part of

a two man sniper team just hours before the invasion he climbed a guard tower in the kuwait iraq border to search for iraqi mine layers on the other side. to get you. to exactly one week after we shot this video zeus was killed when he stepped on an unexploded u.s. artillery. if. they feel

today i want to tell you about my son his source or so i mean you might identify with that. and last year he was born here in t.o. wanna just he went to los alamos grade school he. i don't think that he enlisted with the marines before september eleventh. i had to give my written consent because he was just seventeen in the house. that's the legal age for enrollment in the u.s. army. the iraq war began on march twentieth. on the twenty eighth just eight days later the soldiers came to see me. they called me at work and i came home. and they said mr suarez your son is a hero but you know he died tonight in the battlefield they were iraqi soldiers shot him in the head.

i swear to those words destroyed my life. three days later a journalist called me. so you said mr suarez they lied to you and your son wasn't killed by the enemy so he was killed by friendly fire in he explained what happened. it is during the night of march twenty sixth. planes struck and twenty thousand cluster bombs. anything to see it on march twenty seventh my son's unit marched on baghdad. and he stepped on an american cluster bomb. i mean nobody's paying me to talk

to you it doesn't matter what i do this will never come back to me my grandson will never see his father again. but in each of your faces i see hasten. if you think that i visited more than five hundred schools around the world. but just to go to the next generation at the us. must have your say davis only you can save your life let me just put a soreness inside. good thank you. for this.

question is that so much as i can which are called me on it so here is a america's political reform has finally come to an end but was a really good choice to what degree was this campaign season only about. live.

i'm in sochi but no a city in europe i'm the host of the twenty fourteen winter to pick a. song she. sang all the way. to a. tsotsi. thank you though some way. the dog days are gone and the fried days it eliminates the comments of those. saucy it's so true i love.

the war now. from tijuana to the. dishonest school recruiting would. stop the killing of young latinos. i think the people of santa i mean the march to come together. no more fear no more fear you have the power.

young people should stay in school. become soldiers and fight for cause. should not. be. the peace march that we began. and until one on sunday we. give him he will walk ten to fifteen miles a day everyone's welcome not just latinos everyone who supports peace i start coming up up and up but.

how her thank you who how he thanked how. i . was. her her her. people around the world are very interested in us and chicanos and she gotten us why because a lot of us are fighting and dying in iraq right now a lot of our party and there's a you all may know are in the military. we work hard to create jobs so that

latino's don't have to serve in the u.s. army. we try to tell the truth about military service. because the recruiters painted distorted picture of it. and danielle or. is it easier. for her. or her supervisor that i teach the literature and chicano studies about mexican americans in california. and i met. fernando's suarez del sol law in two thousand and three just after his son's death. that's when we began to work on ways to counter military recruitment. i mean this means a lot somy because i'm a vietnam vet vietnam

a slave it on the vietnam. look at them was in one nine hundred ninety the clinton administration the military realized there were a lot of young latinos and they could target for recruiting. and want. because. you could give iraq war put pressure on the pentagon to step up recruiting and. not be. back because so they targeted people without immigration papers. and now those i can escape and. i move a lot of kids arrived without papers but they grew up here and. they went to school here that he will they're bilingual and bicultural somebody who

died. because schools must give recruiters their students' names and addresses and phone numbers on this meat that. might. be less as well as the zinc and if they refuse they lose their federal funding. so the pentagon has direct access to all these young people. are going to be. there's no family privacy. recruiters call them up every night run meant they lost by the latino parents. are up against recruiting drives all over this country and they played. well.

in the. in the. i. was. one of thomas but alice had to wear in front of sun ac into a high school just three miles from. me as they left. and military have an office inside our uniforms. don't. get it here ninety percent of the students are latinos. i did this of c.s.i. stunt instructor some courage the kids to train as a junior reserve officer said i'm a day off you see i leave you never going to be show me that he is on that i mean you got to end recruiters finish the job you're listing them in the army is fair amount of the slogan is using data now they have to.

subtly emotionless studio pentagon figures tell us that latinos and african-americans stand serve in the lower ranks of the u.s. military said reese's meet that is. among the first soldiers to die at least three were hispanics and. the first marine killed in iraq there was a guatemalan not a u.s. citizen.

pono died for like total died for a war that should never have been fought for a cause that never existed. and for an enemy that was never there. when total left here is a young adult she went to the states looking for a change in his economic status and he looked for a better job better life. what tono was always looking for was family ever since

i took tone on being that seven years old he had this whole inside is hard that he was looking for family and it was it was it was it was believing in his heart because he was so. longing for his mother and for a father who loved him for his sister who had gotten separated with i think total fell for the whole idea of joining the marines and i'll be one be proud be you know fall in love will give you a family. not only was he one of the first americans to die his killed by friendly fire. tony was a very smart boy who was a genius i mean he really was tonal was a genius tono was creative thoughtful pensive he wrote poetry. one of the most incredible kids i've ever raised in raising eighteen thousand

people. my concern. was to get this good looking kids' health back to get him back into school and to me it was obvious he was living on the streets get him off the streets. the boys every now and then as i've been raising them through all the years they say wouldn't it be great to go to the states and i say no you're not going to get a visa you don't have land you don't have bank accounts you don't have a job you don't have family they're not going to give you a visa make your future here. and i always discourage that because it's very very

dangerous and once you're there you're going to get the dirtiest lowest paying unskilled jobs that nobody else wants make you future theory to cure what. tono threw out to me a couple trial balloons that they were going to split and i said don't. another couple trial balloons don't like saying no where's tone i haven't seen him for a couple days. he takes. you probably hitchhiked up to the mexican border illegally crosses the mexican border from guatemala into mexico and keeps going and. went to the. next thing i know i'm in my office in bismarck north dakota. my on line a comb my yahoo account news flash first soldier killed his guatemalan or.

hope i didn't know. click on a picture comes up good looking. for centanni of materials. i just sent back and even just sat back a shocking you think and. why did you do this why did you join the military why didn't you ask me why did you get killed. loser another heart breaker the funeral is coming. i'm disinvited from the funeral. i'm disinvited from the funeral everybody he grew up with tonal cool new tone for friends of tonal nobody's let him play who's at tunnels funeral. dignitaries leo so the people from the ambassadorial circle ministers officials the government people people who didn't know him. they were friends on behalf of precious little george w. bush only half of the rainfall

a show that is well over two percent you will deserve to forget all cost you will snatch illustration given in recognition of your brother's bravery and the sacrifices healing for me. now i'm thinking there's. flash of anger isn't thinking you know mr ambassador. that's right i raised this boy and you tell me i can't go to my son's funeral i've got a file of letters that i've sent to you in which this boy is calling me dear daddy dear papa you don't love your son tony. if you're disinviting me from this funeral . in god's name are you. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

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