you know what is that my name is fernando suarez del solar wind project i'm the director and founder of the gradual take up piece 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 and swayed. like my son pesos again from being grabbed by the claws of american militarism. it is from each i fight for peace but up us. to mr. god i think when you. give me a gun i speak will you share with me didn't just play. so many you're going to have to sit down in your back my sword i don't agree you don't agree. my son is in the

arena i don't know what is crap we are going to friday for you is there. going to be leaving my sony at marine died in iraq i mean if you do original fifty films. but he will always be remembered. yes. i repeat. independent of the war in my feet into the necessary that i support the marine corps specifically but believe. me. through the boys. we will serve to make sure you often feel left out for the rest of.

his source was an ordinary boy. did it after years he was mischievous. like to tease his sisters but he loved them a lot. less good he. wanted to be a policeman until when he was thirteen he met the military recruiters in san diego . and on the it was. a living 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. do that this is you know if we made the decision to

move to the us under pressure from pesos and olivia the only be. used again for they wanted to join the us army and. just all the issues he sold our home and our laundering business in tijuana and we started a new life here because i don't and ikea. as she said but he exercised kept his weight studied to get good grades and then when it's going to you because you. are going to get 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 james who made you. think

he was a camp pendleton when nine eleven happened to you. they may be a good one if you like thousands of other parents we thought there will be a war. backstory and you have been. made on february first he said father in four days i'm leaving for iraq. as an embedded journalist in the unit i met here just on the very first day of the war got to go by. he was part of

a two man sniper team just hours before the invasion the crime to guard power in the kuwaiti iraq border search for a rocky mine layers on the other side. you know. you get your dad i. take back the one we got there 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 hey source or so i did you might

identify with that. and last year he was born here in t.o. wanna just he went to los alamos grade school. and to this he enlisted with the marines before september eleventh of maddie. to do it defeated i had to give my written consent because he was just seventeen in the house he made up a nice get out and he got that's the legal age for in rome and in the u.s. army he made the iraq war began on march twentieth. giving get on the twenty eighth just eight days later and i think three soldiers came to see me yeah i don't it's one of those i mean i'm just going to you. you know 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 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 into the explain what happened. it is during the night of march twenty sixth. planes 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 i mean my grandson will

never see his father again. but in each of your faces i see hey so. it was he visited more than five hundred schools around the world. but just to go to the next generation at us. you must have your say this only you can save your life. thank you you. thank . good.

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to end the war now i thank you. from tijuana to demand a ban on the dishonest school recruiting would. 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. i thank ye i know who. my fight goes beyond the iraq war when young people should stay in school. that. they shouldn't become soldiers and fight for calls.

these young people should not end up like him. the. day for the peace march that we began in tijuana on sunday. you can see ten to fifteen miles a day everyone's welcome not just latinos everyone who supports peace. how how. how who he. i.

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

say professor teach literature and chicano studies about mexican americans in california. i met fernando's warres del sol 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 since me because i'm a vietnam vet vietnam a slave it on the vietnam. 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. solo's latinos put us on of them because.

i. could give iraq war put pressure on the pentagon to step up recruiting and workforce not the one that that because so they targeted people without immigration papers. in document albums i can escape and. i move a lot of kids arrived without papers but they grew up here mental. only cells in need of an inclusive and they went to school here that he will their bilingual and bicultural somebody who died it was a lesser school as weak 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. recruiters call them up every night the run meant they lost by the 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 i like where 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 if it's the nest delicacy don't. get it here ninety percent of the students are latinos. i did this of c.s.i. stunt go to the edison 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 enlisting them in the army is for them 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 estime serve in the lower ranks of the u.s. military said reese's meet that is. the medals guy among the first soldiers to die

at least three were hispanic and being 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 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 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 chance of he wrote poetry. 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 for 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 and 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. know where his 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. went 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 squad i'm on or. hope i didn't go. click on a picture comes up good looking. for centanni of materials. i just sent back and even just got back a shock and you think. why did you do this why did you join the military why didn't

you ask me why did you get killed. losing another heartbreak the funerals coming. i'm disinvited 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 and ministers officials the government people people who didn't know him. they were friends on behalf of precious little george w. bush and they have all of rainfall a short lived wall or two percent you will deserve to forget all postulates naturalization 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 field. in god's name are you. sure sisters. miss it's him he's a nanny. my daddy. a lot of. does a famous reuse benson play of his own my save. my money ransom business.

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