today ted democracy now exposed to army reservist marshall thompson dispensing year in iraq working as a military journalist the son of a former you time they are he now plans to walk across his home state in the nation to protest war at this point it doesn't matter why we got into the war or what the partisan politics were about what matters is that two soldiers die every day on average and any anyway that we can in this war one day soon as two lives saved and i would walk five hundred miles for that i would walk a thousand miles for that. some people said some terrible things not never to my face you know but in even they got this electronic bravery and they would really say some crazy things one guy wrote in and he said that he hoped that i got run over by a truck on my walk. a lot of people said i just hope you keep walking to mexico when you leave this country when i want you here. and one guy even said that he wished that i had died in iraq because then i would have been honorable. so i was about to go speak to utah state to help promote the walk in right before we go in a phone