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Article: ALL IN THE FAMILY RETURNING SOLDIERS AND THEIR SPOUSES, PARENTS AND CHILDREN ARE THE BACKBONE OF THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT SPREADING TODAY IN THE UNITED STATES. AND THEY'RE SPEAKING LOUDER THAN EVER
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 13, 2005
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CARlOS ARREDONDO, a wiry man with expansive gestures, circles the
Cambridge Common, handing out copies of letters his son Alexander
wrote in January 2003 as he shipped out for his first tour of duty
in Iraq. "I feel so lucky to be blessed with the chance to defend my
country 6 months after I joined the military," Alexander writes to
his brother. To his parents: "I am not afraid of dying. I am more
afraid of what will happen to all the ones that I love if something
happens to me." He had enlisted in the Marines at 17, just before
beginning his senior year in high school at Blue Hills Regional
Technical School in Canton, and left for training days after
graduation. On August 25, ...