By Steve Liewer UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
MIRAMAR — Antiwar activist Dawn O’Brien of Oceanside frets plenty about her three Marine sons, two of whom have served in Iraq.
She worries almost as much, though, about another young soldier – the one who is sitting in the brig at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station because he refused to fight.
Pvt. Robin Long, 25, enlisted in the Army in 2003. Ordered to Iraq in 2005, he fled to Canada. He was deported last year, the first to be sent home under a crackdown on the estimated 200 war resisters who have taken refuge north of the border.
After a court-martial last August, Long was sent to Miramar to serve his 15-month sentence. O’Brien and others in San Diego County’s small but fervent community of peace protesters have taken up his cause.
“We knew this kid made a moral decision, and he was honestly being punished for it,” said O’Brien, president of the local chapter of the antiwar group Military Families Speak Out. “It’s not illegal to refuse to fight in an illegal war.”
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