then i made everybody ready.

and we're going up to san francisco you will walk about fifty miles a day for sixteen days from here to san francisco that's right will arrive on march twenty seventh the third anniversary of faces death of.

you notice that my name is fernando suarez dills so a lot of the project i'm the director and founder of the gretel

a stick up piece project i'm fighting against militarism against the war 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 kuwait i am. chase i'm fighting to avoid. next war to keep other young people with hopes and dreams ceilings can sway in a more peaceful like my son his so sad and from being grabbed by the claws of american militarism. what is from each i fight for peace he's putting up us. to mr. benefit will you.

give me a gun i've big will use here let me then use plain. so many of my laugh is sent down your back my son died i don't agree you don't agree read or heard of him my son is in the arena i don't know what is crap we are going to be for us there's. going to be leaving my sony at the marine died in iraq on diesel fuel original films. i'm sorry about your size but he will always be remembered. yes. i repeat. independent i support all the war in my opinion two lawyers were necessary that i support the marine corps says pacific but police. who claimed through the voice. that we will serve to actually. look at that for the rest of.

their. baby and. his source was an ordinary boy. he was mischievous. like to tease his sisters but he loved them a lot. to be a policeman and when he was thirteen he met the military recruiters in san diego.

they told him that if he and rolled in the u.s. army he could join the drug enforcement agency and become an international police officer. we made the decision to move to the us under pressure from. the beginning they wanted to join the us army. i just thought of this you see we sold our home and our laundering business in tijuana and we started a new life here because i don't and ikea. she said but he exercised kept his weight studied to get good grades and then when it's going to consume me. for going to the recruiter told him if he served for just one year get out of it qualify for the d.n.a. . so i finally give my consent to feed him and he enlisted when he was seventeen

and a half and all the sitting she made. me was a camp pendleton when nine eleven happened to. me if you have to know why you're like thousands of other parents we thought there will be a war. the text of our expression you. made in february first he said to you father in four days i'm leaving for iraq.

as an invented journalist in his unit i met on the very first day of the war got to go but after. he was part of a two man sniper team just hours before the invasion he climbed a guard tower in the kuwaiti iraq border search for a rocky mine layers on the other side. of his beat up you saw last. exactly one week after we shot this video is zeus was killed when he stepped on an unexploded u.s. artillery.

day for today i want to tell you about my son his source or so i mean you might identify with that. unless you're he was born here in t.o. wanna just he went to los alamos grade school yeah you know. i 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. i mean. they called me at work and i came home to them. 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. but that is the three days later a journalist called me. 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 the explained what happened. in my face. it is during the night of march twenty sixth. planes struck and twenty thousand cluster bombs. into 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 will never come back. we my grandson will never see his father again. but in each of your faces i see hasten. it was he visited more than five hundred schools around the world. but just to go to the next generation of us. must have your say this only you can save your life but a soreness. thank you. for this.

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end the war now. i think. we evolved from tijuana to demand a dishonest school recruiting. i stop the killing of young latinos i was i.e. thank you people of santa ana i was going to march to come together as one voice was. no more fear i no more fear you have the power cuts i thank ye i know how who. my fight goes beyond the iraq war when young people should stay in school.

become soldiers and fight for calls. these young people should not. be. a. day for the peace march that we began in tijuana on sunday. ten to fifteen miles a day everyone's welcome just let. everyone who supports peace. how how. how who he.

i. i. i guess. people around the world are very interested in us and chicanos and she got us why because a lot of us are fighting and dying in iraq right now a lot of our party is a you all may know are in the military is done with them we work hard to create jobs so that latino's don't have to serve in the u.s. army said recently that we try to tell the truth about a military service. because the recruiters painted distorted picture of it.

in one or two of the cases students who. sleep through his or literature and chicano studies about mexican americans in california. i met fernando's warres deal so 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 that i know they vietnam a slave it on the you know. look it's the muslims one nine hundred ninety doring the clinton administration the military realized there were a lot of young latinos and they could target for recruiting and in most books the

most on us and one. so most latinos put us on of them because. i. could give iraq war put pressure on the pentagon to step up recruiting and conduct what will not be that that because so they targeted people without immigration papers. in document filed those i can escape and. i move shows a lot of kids arrived with papers but they grew up here but ok santiago only cells in need of an inclusive and they went to school here that he was there bilingual and bicultural somebody who that was. schools must give recruiters their students' names and addresses and phone numbers to be on this meet that was. why.

the less is willing to sink in if they refuse and when they lose their federal funding. so the pentagon has direct access to all these young people. are going to be. destroyed there's no family privacy. recruiters call them up every night we run meant they lost by their despondent latino parents are up against recruiting drives all over this country and. that was that while. i was i was i. was. one of the most but alice i can wear

in front of san a central high school just three miles from. me. when i make it and military have an office inside i you know it's delicious you don't. get it here ninety percent of the students are latinos. i did this of c.d.'s i stand shoulder to the elephant instructors encourage the kids to train as a junior reserve officers and i'm a day off you see at least you knew you were going to be somebody that if he is on that that means you're going to end recruiters finish the job you're listing them in the army as freedom out of going about a slogan is using data and i think it's. sort of emotionless his studio pentagon figures tell us that latino's and

african-americans start to serve in the lower ranks of the u.s. military said reese's meet that is. the medals among the first soldiers to die at least three were hispanic panel 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 he went to the states looking for a change in exact a moment status and he looked for a better job better life. what tonal was always looking for was family ever since i took tone on a game at 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 bleeding 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 when i think tonal 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 tono 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. and.

my concern. was to get this good looking kids health back get him back into school and to me it was obvious he was living on the streets get him off the streets and. 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 to make you future here wait to hear 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. he probably hitchhiked up to the mexican border illegally crosses the mexican border from guatemala into mexico and keeps going. to. x. thing i know i'm in my office in bismarck north dakota. my on line a comb my yahoo account a news flash first soldier killed his guatemalan orphan hope i didn't know. click on a picture comes up good looking jen. or see antonio. just

stand back and even just step back a shocking you think. why did you do this why did you join the military why didn't you ask me why did you get killed. loser another heartbreak the funerals coming. i'm just elated from the funeral. i'm disinvited from the funeral . everybody who grew up with tonal who knew tonal would friends of tonal nobodies let him play who's a tonal funeral. dignitaries people from the ambassadorial circle ministers officials government people people who didn't know him. they were friends on behalf of precious little george w. bush and we have for the rainfall a show that is well over two percent you will do some difficult postulates naturalization given in recognition of your brother's bravery and the sacrifices he

made 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're telling me i can't go to my son's funeral i've got a file of letters that i've sent you in which this boy is calling me dear daddy dear papa you don't love your son tonal and you're disinviting me from this funeral. in god's name are you. download the official publication cellphone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's t.v. is not required to watch all its he only needs your mobile device watch on t.v.

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