[Mb-civic] US Military Families Send $600,000 Aid to "Other Side"

[Kevin Walz]

> Published on Friday, December 31, 2004 by the Agence France Presse
> Relatives of US Servicemen Killed in Iraq to Hold Vigil on Jordan 
> Border
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> AMMAN - Relatives of US servicemen killed in Iraq and members of 
> anti-war groups announced plans to hold a candlelit vigil on the 
> Jordan-Iraq border to protest US involvement.
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> Members of Families for Peace, Code Pink and Global Exchange announce 
> that they have sent 600,000 USD in humanitarian aid to the displaced 
> people of Fallujah.(AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)
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> Members of Families for Peace, Code Pink and Global Exchange told a 
> news conference in Amman that they had sent 600,000 dollars' worth of 
> humanitarian aid to residents of the Iraqi town of Fallujah displaced 
> by last month's massive US-led assault.
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> "I don't know of any other case in history in which the parents of 
> fallen soldiers collected medicine ... for the families of the 'other 
> side'," said Medea Benjamin, the founding director of Global Exchange, 
> a human rights group.
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> "It is a reflection of a growing movement in the United States ... 
> opposed to the unjust nature of this war," she said.
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> "This is the positive face of the American people which we would like 
> to show ... so that we are not looked at with animosity but with love. 
> Our hearts go out to the people of Fallujah and to all the Iraqi 
> people," she said.
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> Fernando Suarez del Solar, whose son Lance Corporal Victor Gonzalez, 
> better known as Jesus, was killed in Iraq on October 13, and his wife 
> Rosa, made a passionate appeal to the US government to end its 
> military involvement in Iraq.
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> "My son died when he stepped on an illegal (US) cluster bomb. The US 
> government told me he died because Iraqi fire killed him, but this was 
> another lie from the Bush administration," Fernando said.
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> "My wife and I don't speak Arabic but our grief is the same as the 
> Iraqis. We understand their pain and we don't want others to feel the 
> same pain," said the Mexican-born California resident.
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> The group will hold a candlelit vigil on New Year's eve outside UN 
> headquarters in Amman before travelling to the border on January 1 for 
> a similar gathering.
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