A Father Speaks Out Against the Iraq War

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

By Paul Rockwell

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/37487/

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His buddies in the Marines called him the "Aztec warrior." Jesus Suarez del Solar was one of the first Americans killed during in invasion of Iraq. On March 27, 2003 Jesus stepped on an undetonated U.S. cluster bomb and bled to death in a remote desert near Diwaniya. Jesus left behind his wife and 1-year-old son, his mother, three sisters, and a father who now speaks out against the occupation of Iraq. As a representative of Military Families Speak Out, a burgeoning organization of 1,500 families who call for an end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq, Fernando Juarez tells high school and college students: Stay in school; don't be deceived by false promises from recruiters for Bush.

Fernando Suarez del Solar is a Mexican-born American citizen. With his wife and children, he immigrated from Tijuana, Mexico, to Escondido, California, where he delivered newspapers and worked at a Seven-Eleven store...


TIFFANY DUONG/daily bruin

Fernando Suarez del Solar spoke at the memorial
exhibit about his 20-year-old dead son, who left
behind a wife and a 3-year-old son.

[madokie]

1. I feel for him and I know he must know there are a lot of us screaming to

stop this illegal war.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. It is a crying shame that it takes so many deaths for people to

realize how horribly wrong this is.

So many families must pay the ultimate price...
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