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I saw my friend completely change into this demon, says Snyder, who served almost four months in Iraq last year as a gunner on a Humvee military vehicle. I saw his soul die right in front of me.

On May 14, Mothers Day, there will be an “Afternoon of Performance Art and Short Films” to celebrate resistance to military recruiting and the growing opposition to war from witin the military at the Parkway Theatre in Oakland.

Fernando’s son Jesús Suarez Del Solar was a charismatic young soul who above all placed a premium on helping children. Jesús joined the Marines believing he would free the children of Iraq. This was his mission, and when he died, Fernando made it his.

A year in which the deaths in Iraq have not stopped, in which good young people with dreams have left their families to join my son in that blessed place.

I first met Delgado in a classroom at Acalanes High School in Lafayette, California, where he presented a slide show on the atrocities that he himself observed in Southern and Northern Iraq. Delgado acknowledged that the U.S. military did some good things in Iraq.

To mobilize and publicize resistance within the Latino community to the war in Iraq, Fernando Suarez de Solar, the father of U.S. Marine Jesus Alberto Suarez de Solar, led a historic peace march from Tijuana to San Francisco, from March 12-March 27.