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Latino Soldiers Who Refused Iraq Speak Out - by Aaron Glantz

Latino Soldiers Who Refused Iraq Speak Out - by Aaron Glantz: "A U.S. Army medic who refused to load his gun in Iraq and then escaped through a base window in Germany rather than be deployed a second time returned home to Los Angeles this week after serving six months in a U.S. military prison.
Augustin Aguayo, 31, was born in Mexico and grew up in Southern California. After graduating from high school, he married and had twin daughters, but never got a college degree."

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