OATHKEEPERS ATTEND FUNERAL IN ARIZONA

On May 05, 2011, at Tucson, Arizona, the Pima County SWAT team assaulted the home of a young Marine veteran who served two tours in Iraq. Leaving in its wake a widow and two fatherless young boys, SWAT fired 71 shots at the young man in his hallway, hitting him 22 times, then held back medics for over an hour as the young war veteran bled out on his floor. It was a bad day for the Pima County Sheriff's Department, and an even worse day for Jose Guerena and his young family.

Despite some dissension within our ranks (Jose Guerena was a suspect in drug-related crimes), Oath Keepers went to Tucson, Arizona earlier this week on Memorial Day and conducted a muster, a march, and a memorial service to honor Jose's service to this nation in the U.S. Marine Corps.

The pace of the march, the length of the flag-carrying procession, the somberness in the rhythm of the march, the dignity of singular-minded people coming together in purpose and walking upon the earth in procession, is as primordial and potent as it gets. The moment of the march shall live forever.

Here it is. It is powerful, and it will pull at your heart. It combines beauty, tenderness, mourning, brotherhood, and the sure promise that Jose Guerena’s death is in itself a birth which shall mark forever the pivot point at which the American people began to turn this nation around and march away from tyranny and back into the promise of Freedom. The genius in this moment, now preserved on film, reaches to the depths of human despair and elevates us one and all to the heights of mankind’s renewed hope. Moist eyes and even tears are alright.

View the video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKrSQY_w34M

View the video at Oath Keepers: http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2011/06/02/walking-a-mile-in-freedom%E2%80%99s-shoes-oath-keepers-muster-tucson-memorial-day-may-30-2011/?cp=1#comment-30673

Full coverage at Oath Keepers' national website: http://www.oathkeepers.org/oath/