you know what is that my name is fernando suarez del sol for you i'm the director and founder of the take up peace project i'm fighting against militarism against the war has just let 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 he was the first american soldier from mexico to die during the invasion of iraq. was. i'm fighting to avoid the next war to keep other young people with hopes and dreams feel just. like my son pesos going from being grabbed by the claws of american

militarism. what is from each i fight for p.c.'s for the us. to make sure. that i think when you. give me a gun i speak we use it then we didn't use but a. so many you might have died in iraq my son died in iraq don't agree you don't agree with the number of a my son even is married i don't know what his crafty are going to be for you if there's. going to be. my sone. if you do it. but he will always be remembered. yes. i repeat. independent of

the war it might be due to the necessary that i support the marine corps specifically but believe. it or link. to. you will serve. i felt for. his source was an ordinary boy. it after our years he was mischievous.

like to tease his sisters but he loved them a lot but. wanted to be a policeman until when he was thirteen he met the military recruiters in san diego . and you. told them that if he unrolled in the u.s. army later he could join the drug enforcement agency and become an international police officer. division do it we made the decision to move to the us under pressure from places and alleviate the early. to get ready 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 ekiti.

is 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 a recruiter told him if he served for just one year i don't have it qualify for the da. so i finally give my consent to feed him and he enlisted when he was seventeen and a half of the sea change he made. he was a camp pendleton when nine eleven happened to. me if you have to know why you're like thousands of other parents about who we thought there will be a war gave us the text of respect you. made in february first he said to me father in four days i'm leaving for iraq.

as an embedded journalist in his unit i met his views on the very first day of the war going to go by after. he was part of a two man sniper team just hours before the invasion a crime to guard tower in the kuwait iraq border search for a rocky mine layers on the other side. of his beat up here. last. exactly one week after we shot this video zeus was killed when he stepped on an

unexploded u.s. artillery. later 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 he went to los alamos grade school yeah you know. after that he enlisted with the marines before september eleventh. i had to give my written consent because he was just seventeen and. 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 if any soldiers came to see me. they called me at work and i came home. they said mr suarez your son is a hero but you know he died tonight in the battlefield the 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 the explained what happened. face. it during the

night of march twenty sixth. planes twenty thousand cluster bombs. 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 will never come back. me my grandson will never see his father again. but in each of your faces i see hey. 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 this only you can save your life but soreness inside. thank you.

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lol. end the war now. i think. we evolved from tijuana to demand a dishonest school recruiting but. i stopped the killing of young latinos howie 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 cut i thank ye i know 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. i. wish i were on day four of the peace march that we began in tijuana on sunday. you can see ten to fifteen miles a day everyone's welcome just let. everyone who supports peace. how how. how. how who

he. i. i i. 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. we work hard to create jobs so that latino's don't have to serve in the u.s. army i said recently that we try to tell the truth about military service. because the recruiters painted distorted picture of it.

in the lord so he gives his students who. say prove his or literature and chicano studies about mexican americans in california. and i met fernando's warres dill so law in two thousand and three just after his son's death we will. 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 them 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 in quantity. so most latinos but as one of them yes. i. could give iraq war put pressure on the pentagon to step up recruiting and quit force. the one that that because so they targeted people without immigration papers. in document albums i can escape and was. my mood shows a lot of kids arrived without papers but they grew up here until. only cells need a clue so on they went to school here that he was there bilingual and bicultural somebody who died it was a lesser squillaci as the schools must give recruiters their students' names and addresses and phone numbers to be on this meet that was.

why. he less is willing to sink in if they refuse and 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. the recruiters call them up every night the run meant they lost brothers the spawn of latino parents are up against recruiting drives all over this country and. that was that while. i was. i.

was. one of the most but alice had to wear in front of san ysidro high school just three miles from. me. when i make it and military have an office inside i you know that's delicacy don't. get it here ninety percent of the students are latinos. i did this of c.s.i. stunt go to the 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 got to then recruiters finish the job and you're listing them in the army it's him out of going to a slogan is using data now they have to. sell them all said one of his studio pentagon figures tell us that latino's and

african-americans stand 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 and pre-med 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. been torn all left here is a young adult he went to the states looking for a change in exact status and he looked for a better job better life. what tonal 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 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 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 wants to know 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 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 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 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. to. x. 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 was 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 even just got 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. another heartbreak the funerals coming. i'm just invited from the funeral. i'm disinvited from the funeral. everybody grew up with tonal who knew tonal who were friends of tonal nobody's let him play who's a total funeral. dignitary say oh 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 were grateful 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 as i'm 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 tony and you're disinviting me from this field who in god's name are you. brown eyes or. sister's. i miss it's in. they can my daddy. a lot of. does

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