From Deseret News archives:
Utahns pack Salt Lake library to condemn war, buildup
Four small, black and white pictures of a man he calls "Bon." In two of the photographs, "Bon" is standing in front of a fence covered with intertwining, leafy vines. He stands tall, wearing a dress shirt and a pair of ironed slacks. Based on the shadows that hit his smiling, round face, the day must have been fairly sunny.
The other two pictures, however, feature the same young man, but this time, he's not standing or smiling. He's face down on the ground, in army fatigues, limp and surrounded by puddles of his own blood.
Miller was the one responsible for "Bon's" death.
It occurred in a village five miles south of Saigon, Vietnam, while Miller was serving in the Army, midwar, around 1967. He took the first two pictures from "Bon's" wallet for identification purposes for the Army. The other two were taken as proof of death.
"I carried that photograph around every day to remind me of the human costs of war," Miller said. "And I apologized to it to him every single night."
Bringing the troops home is something Miller wished the United States would have done a long time ago.
"I just wish someone had fought to bring the troops home back then," Miller said, in an emotional speech to the overflowing library auditorium. "I wish someone would have fought to bring me home."
A much younger veteran, Larry Cannon, who served in the military since 2001, gave his own view of the current war, adding that the Bush administration thinks of the military as a "multipurpose tool."
"Everyone knows that even a multipurpose tool doesn't fix everything," said Cannon, a University of Utah student. "And if the administration keeps using this multipurpose tool, it's going to eventually break."
The first week Cannon was in the military, 9/11 occurred. Most recently, he served in Operation Iraqi Freedom, ending his service in 2005. And although he is not anti-military, he said his experience has helped him view the war from other soldiers' points of view.
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A little after midnight Wednesday morning, about 21 hours ago as I write...
There's a lot of reason to leave your plastic home as you shop:
So many are spewing criticism against this man in very incoherent, unbased...
violence is not to be tolerated!! gun or no gun!
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This is the gutsiest thing I've ever read in a Utah newspaper.
So many are spewing critisism against this man in very incoherent, unbased...
over BYU.
Yep, good journalism from the Dnews, as expected.
It happened 2-3 seasons ago in Green Bay.
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