among these were rallies in new york city where one hundred thousand protesters assembled at the u n headquarters between seven hundred fifty thousand and two million demonstrated in london to taking you to one of the largest such events in the city's history just one point three million people marched in barcelona six hundred fifty thousand in roles of two hundred thousand in sydney australia and hundreds of thousands more in france and germany despite the growing yes i will move and the lack of a un resolution authorizing the attack on the united states and its allies amassed more than two hundred thousand troops for the invasion and on march tenth the british government announced six key tasks for iraq to comply with if it was to avoid war including a t v address by saddam hussein admitting to having weapons of mass destruction that was about to have been made it seem inevitable although there was little mention of the costs or of the likely casualties that such a war might bring on march seventeenth two thousand and three fourths is begin the aerial bombardment as a member of the first light armored reconnaissance battalion first marines division a seuss white as was part of that invasion father of his says explained how his son first became interested in america during an outing in tijuana a souse had seen some destitute children and his father explained how the use of drugs can disrupt families this made his souse want to join the u military issues wanted to become a hero and he already had absorbed the message conveyed by television advertisements for the u s military that soldiers were somehow able to save children from drugs  of me over there way because i see the difference newspaper cetera the united states have a special group for come back to drugs and broke in my life in mexico for supporting the dream my song my my daughter determined to become a u s soldier a souse had already asked a recruiter if u s citizenship was required to join the military on difficult to say no no no use ok you have you going catacomb on no problem jim brown vietnam veteran and purple heart recipient explain how promises of military benefits and recognition are lower for young people to join the armed forces will be trained in the particular job that you're going to do in the service and he also promised that you know if you have benefits coming to you as a result of your service like health care and education and housing  be available to you that wouldn't be available to you if you had gotten service those are the promises i think that they make i don't know it's like in this day any age these people are over there fighting in afghanistan or iraq and they're dying becoming horribly wounded  multiple amputees i mean it's a very very high price to pay but yet it's kind of being put on the back pages if at all and you rarely hear you really see anything about it and yet this happening every single day and the counts are going up quite a bit and these this needs not to be hidden in the back like you know like some little minor thing this isn't collateral damage just isn't you know acceptable levels and says people dying for the country job as i could i was wounded in the purple heart from in the combat action ribbon and you know i did my i did my job over there i watched people die around me you know and this was not a pleasant thing i watch people die around me and i thought know it's time to speak out in things happened so fast there was no dialogue there was no time to speak you know we made the right pace is was well regarded by his commanding officer and the other soldiers in his battalion  somebody was always willing to do anything it took to get the job he loved his fellow marines and sailors and they love him they did everything they could the other night and i know he worked on the exact same thing for you his father recalls the day when he shortly after his son's death fernando begin to speak out about the a necessary war and its deadly impact on families in the united states and in iraq similarly he explained how the destruction caused by the war created a deep well of hatred for the united is to the in the university in baghdad when i when i entered the university the allowed us to dispose in these in the door and say no yankees here no yankees here really you nervous because i don't know what happened to cross the street is the military american military is not very happy with my friends i mean by that  late in november of two thousand and three father traveled to iraq as part of a nine member delegation of americans while they're in a to pilgrimage to the place where his son was killed reporter bob woodruff who had met aces guided him to the site march twenty seventh early evenings tragedy strikes someone has stepped on an explosive who is it i ask it's waras there's a gash by his ri so his parents the from an ambulance is now trying to pick him up they're asking him about his wife where he's from just to keep the conversation going march twenty eighth as who says that he died in the chopper on the way to the hospital we are stunned for nando's white as met with groups of iraqi citizens he spoke to them about with the soldiers and tried to lift their spirits by giving them letters written by  at the site where his sous died for nando placed a crucifix