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By Doug Cunningham

[Fyten]: 'ILWU moves cargo – the boxes. Well I told them I was tired of bringing boxes home with bodies in ‘em. It’s time to speak up for what’s right."

Vietnam vet and ILWU Local 10 member Steve Fyten; he's one of the west coast dock workers who will stop work on May 1st to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Fyten]: "I am patriotic, but I’m patriotic to do the right thing. Bein’ patriotic doesn’t mean that you support a war that’s not right. Our sons and daughters are gettin’ killed over there. That’s not being patriotic. I think bein’ patritotic is when you stand up and say what’s right.”