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March 17, 2004

Iraq soldier lays down arms

Let’s hope Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia is the first of many:

”I'm prepared to go to prison because I'll have a clear conscience,'' Mejia told reporters as he entered the National Guard Armory in North Miami where his unit -- Charlie Company of the First Battalion of the 124th Infantry Regiment -- is based.

FOLLOWING `HEART'

``I know that I'm following my conscience and . . . my heart.''

Mejia served three years of active Army duty and was a National Guard infantryman for five years. He had been in Iraq for six months, serving in the Sunni Triangle, when he became increasingly disillusioned with the war, which he said was about oil, not terror.

He called the war immoral and recounted ambushes in which soldiers were wounded, enemies escaped and civilians were killed in the crossfire.

Posted by Norwood at March 17, 2004 11:43 AM
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