The Miami Herald has a closer look at Camilo Mejia, the Florida National Guardsman who deserted and is seeking CO status. Mejio's parents were big in the Sandinista government. His father even penned the Sandinista anthem, which includes the immortal lines "We struggle against the Yankee, enemies of humanity.''
Camilo Mejia's family and supporters see him as a once-confused teenager who joined the Army so he could go to college, then showed courage in leaving it when he became morally appalled at the ''war for oil'' and the treatment of prisoners.
But the military and many fellow soldiers see someone else in Mejia, now 28, who left Iraq on a 15-day leave and never returned: a coward who abandoned his fellow troops in a time of war; an opportunist who joined the armed forces for the paid tuition, but then didn't have the gumption to follow through when called into combat.
A deserter.
Posted by floridacracker at May 19, 2004 07:35 AMi hope they fry his ass.
Posted by: chad at May 19, 2004 09:14 AM