we're going up to san francisco we'll welcome but 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 pesos is death.

you know what is that my name is fernando suarez del sol for you i'm the director and founder of the gradual us take up piece project i'm fighting against militarism against the war just like my son alberto sweat as does so a lot of us died on march twenty seventh two thousand and three he was not an american citizen no he was the first american soldier from mexico to die during the invasion of iraq. i.

am. i'm fighting to avoid the next war to keep other young people with hopes and dreams just. like my son pesos got from being grabbed by the claws of american militarism. it is from each i fight for peace for the last. few days or. that i've been with you. just give me a gun i speak with you share with me then there's been a. so many like you have died in iraq my son died in iraq i don't agree you don't agree with brother dave my son is in the arena i don't know what is crafty i'm going to find it for you if there's. going to keep putting

my sone at marie. and if you do original films. but he will always be remembered. i repeat. independent of the war in. the necessary that i support the marine corps specifically but please. to link. to the boys. and we will serve to make sure your thinking. for the rest of.

his source was an ordinary boy only korean to it after years he was mischievous. like to tease his sisters was that he loved them a lot but all. this is wanted to be a policeman until when a single when he was thirteen he met a military recruiters in san diego v.a. when i see him sent on the you. a little they told him that heavy and rolled in the u.s. army later if he could join the drug enforcement agency and become an international police officer in the. division doing we made the decision to move to the us under pressure from bases and olivia the only. again they wanted to

join the u.s. army and. just all 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 we have enough akki. she said but about he exercised kept his weight studied to get good grades and then when it's going to be yet for 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 an. hour he 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. dexterous in the. middle of february first he said father in four days i'm leaving for iraq. as an invented journalist in his unit i met his views on the very first day of the war going to go after. he was part of a two man sniper team just hours before the invasion it climbed to guard tower in the kuwait iraq border. search for

a rocky mine layers on the other side. to get. to exactly one week after we shot this video zeus was killed when he stepped on an unexploded u.s. artillery. if. later today i want to tell you about my son his source or so i did you might identify with that. unless you're he was born here in t.o. wanna he went to los alamos grade school he. after 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 us 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 and he died tonight in the battlefield the iraqi soldier 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 your son wasn't killed by the enemy so he was killed by friendly fire in the explain what happened. it is during the night of march twenty sixth. planes struck and twenty thousand cluster bombs. 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 need my grandson will never see his father again. but in each of your faces i see hey.

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a ban on the dishonest school recruiting. stop the killing of young latinos. thanks people of santa ana was in the march to come together as one voice i had. no more fear no more fear you have the power. through i was. i thank you so much my fight goes beyond the iraq war when young people should stay in school. and when that. shouldn't become soldiers and fight for calls noble or no it's already legal or illegal. just these young people should not end up like him. and i think if. nothing could be. the.

day for the peace march that we began until one on sunday. you can see he will walk ten to fifteen miles a day everyone's welcome not just latinos everyone who supports peace. but. thank you who how. how how how 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 and there's a you all may know are in the military this is done with the 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. in one hour or so is it easier. for her her. or.

sleeper of his literature and chicano studies about mexican americans in california . and i meant for non those warres del sol law in two thousand and three just after his son's death as we will . that's when we begin to work on ways to counter military recruitment. i mean this means a lot somy because i'm a vietnam vet. a slave it on the vietnam. look at them was in one nine hundred ninety doring the clinton administration the military realized there were a lot of young latinos and they could target for recruiting most books the most on us in quantity. so most latinos put us on it because. you could give iraq war put pressure on the pentagon to step up recruiting and. not

be that that because so they targeted people without immigration papers and i had a. document that of those i can escape and. i moved a lot of kids arrived with papers but they grew up here and. only cells in need of inclusion and they went to school here that he will there bilingual and bicultural somebody who died. because the schools must give recruiters their students' names and addresses and phone numbers and this meat that. might. be less as well as the zinc and if they refuse and they lose their federal funding. so the pentagon has direct access to all these young people.

the. there is no family privacy. the recruiters call them up every night the run meant they lost brothers he spun out latino parents are up against recruiting drives all over this country. that. i. was. i. was. one of the most but i'll say where in front of san ysidro high school just three miles from. me. and military have an office inside i you know.

ninety percent of the students are latinos. i do miss of c.d.'s i stand the instructor some courage the kids to train as junior reserve officers. that he is on that that means you're going to end recruiters finish the job enlisting them in the army. data nearly as. pentagon figures tell us that latinos and african-americans serve in the lower ranks of the u.s. military 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 he 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 again 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 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 join 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. one of the most incredible kids i've ever raised in raising eighteen thousand. 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 here right here in 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 actually know where his 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 guatemala into mexico and keeps going. to the. next thing i know i'm in my office in bismarck north dakota and should my on line a comb my yahoo account. news flash first soldier killed as a quote of my own or. hope i didn't know. click on a picture comes up good looking. for centanni of materials. i just sent back and you know just step back a shock and you think of. 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 he grew up with tonal who knew told all who are friends of tony nobody's let him play who's at tunnels 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 all of rainfall a show that is well over two percent you were different to forgivable last year was natural sation 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 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 news. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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