you notice that my name is fernando suarez dill so a lot of good for you i'm the director and founder of the gradual us take up piece project i'm fighting against militarism against the war and 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 was . chase i'm fighting to avoid the next war to

keep other young people with hopes and dreams ceilings can swing. his friends like my son he's so sad and from being grabbed by the claws of american militarism. put islam each i fight for peace he's part of us. do mr. get it big with you. skinny guy nice big will you say. then we didn't explain. so many of my lap you sent down your back my son died on the run don't agree you don't agree we don't have to look for other names my son is in the arena i don't know what his craft we are going to be for you'll say are. you going to be getting my sony if marine died in iraq and diesel fuel original films have. a story

about. what he will always be remembered for in court yes. i repeat is independent of the war in my opinion to the necessary that i support the marine corps says pacific peace but beneath. all that fame for through the boys. and we will serve to ensure you will often feel left out for the rest of us. think you are.

because 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 let's get him or draw. faces wanted to be a policeman until when he was thirteen he met the military recruiters in san diego v.a. whenever he said that yes the emphasis on the it was. a little they told him that if he and rolled in the u.s. army later if he could join the drug enforcement agency and become an international police officer that. do that is you know we made the decision to move to the u.s. under pressure from bases and olivia the only way. to get in for they wanted to join the u.s. army and. just all this is he sold our home and our laundering

business in tijuana and we started a new life here because i don't and archy. said but about he exercised kept his weight studied to get good grades and then when it's going to. have a lot of the recruiter told him if he served for just one year got 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 of this it came to me. that he was a camp pendleton when nine eleven happened to. me if you have why you're like thousands of other parents we thought there will be a war a dose of back story. because i. made

in february first he said to my father in four days i'm leaving for iraq. as an embedded journalist going to the unit i met his views on 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 search for a rocky mine layers on the other side. you know. i am going to get your. dad i hate.

to exactly one week after we shot this video zeus was killed when he stepped on an unexploded u.s. artillery. if if. 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 just he went to los alamos grade school. and to 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. 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 they were iraqi soldiers shot him in the head. i swear to those words destroyed my life. three days later a journalist called me. and you said mr suarez they lied to you and your son wasn't killed by the enemy so he was killed by friendly fire 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 no 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. i visited more than five hundred schools around the world. but just to go to the

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play. play. play. play. clock i. play. to end the war now. i think. we have. to. stop the killing of young latinos. i think the people of santa i mean the march to come together as one voice was. no more fear

no more fear you have the power. i thank you i. thank. my five. young people should stay in school. become soldiers and fight for calls. these young people should not. be. for the peace march that we began on sunday.

ten to fifteen miles a day everyone's welcome not just latinos everyone who supports peace. i. how he thanked how i . heard. 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. 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 bangalore so he gives his students who. are her. or her supervisor i teach literature and chicano studies about mexican americans in california. or when 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 ystem was in one nine hundred ninety two. during the clinton administration the military realized there were a lot of young latinos they could target for recruiting. in quantity. because i. could give iraq war put pressure on the pentagon to step up recruiting and. not the one that that because so they targeted people without immigration papers that i had in document those i can escape and. a lot of

kids arrived without papers but they grew up here. only cells in need of. they went to school here that he was there bilingual and bicultural somebody who died it was. the schools must give recruiters their students' names and addresses and phone numbers on this meet that was. why. he left as well as the sink and if they refuse and they lose their federal funding. so the pentagon has direct access to all these young people. are part of the. there's no family privacy. the 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 i was . i. went to thomas but alice had to wear in front of sun ac to high school just three miles from here wanna me as they left i'm fed up going to one i may hear and military have an office inside i you know. delicacy 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 instructor some courage the kids to train as

a junior reserve officer said i'm a day off you see i let you in you're going to be somebody that if he is on that that means you're going to end recruiters finish the job and enlisting them in the army is freedom i did wonder about a slogan is using data now to his. son memo saying 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. among the first soldiers to die at least three were hispanic spano 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 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 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 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 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. and. 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 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. 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 from guatemala into mexico and keeps going.

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 is quite a moan or. hold i didn't know. click on it comes up good looking purely. for centanni of materials. i just sent back and even just sat back in 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. loser another heartbreaker the funerals coming. on disinvited from the funeral. i'm disinvited from the funeral. everybody he grew up with conal who knew tony who are friends of tony nobody's letting him play who's at tunnels funeral. dignitaries safe so 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 and they have already full a show that is well over two percent you will deserve to forgettable last year was 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 have sent to you in which this boy is calling me dear daddy dear papa you don't love your son tony. you're disinviting me from this funeral. god's name are you.

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