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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Canada's House Backs War Resisters

Maggie Farley, The Los Angeles Times

"Things never end up the way I expect," he said after the Parliament vote. "I didn't think I would end up in Iraq. I didn't think I would be asked to leave Canada. And I didn't think my case would end up here."Glass joined the National Guard after high school in Fairmount, Ind., in 2002, with assurances that he wouldn't face combat, he said. He thought he would be sandbagging levee banks or quelling riots."They told me the only way you'll see war is if foreign troops storm the shores of Florida," he said. "I believed that."

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