explained above, the new narrative would hurl the U.S. government onto the hot seat for failing to comply with and implement the recommendations and resolutions of the U.N. General Assembly and Special Committee of Decolonization regarding Guam as a non-self-governing territory. Third, it would likely lead to a conclusion that more than one hundred years of strategic dispossession of the Chamoru people warrants a reparatory scheme beyond mere monetary compensation. The next section reveals the enormous—and enormously critical—counter-narrative that would be forsaken if Chamoru claimants bringing an action to stop the desecration of ancestral graves choose a narrow legal strategy of asserting only
United States’ controlling narrative that these islanders died for their country, and for freedom). In the current war, we in Micronesia have killed-in-action rates up to five times the U.S. average. Harden, supra note 202. To date, twenty-nine sons of Micronesia have lost their lives since the War on Terror began in 2001. I write their names here so they will not be forgotten and because we honor our dead: Jude Rivera Wesley, 26, Guam. Killed on December 8, 2003 when the Stryker infantry carrier he was in rolled into a canal (Iraq); Michael Aguon Vega, 42, Guam. Died on March 20, 2004 after sustaining injuries from a roadside bomb (Iraq); Yihjyh "Eddie" Lang Chen, 31, Saipan. Killed on April 4, 2004 after an attack on his unit (Iraq); JayGee Meluat, 24, Palau. Killed on September 13, 2004 by “enemy” fire (Iraq); Skipper Soram, 23, Pohnpei. Died on September 22, 2004 after an explosion near his security post (Iraq); Ferdinand Ibabao, 35, Guam. Killed on October 14, 2004 by a suicide bomber (Iraq); Jonathan Pangelinan Santos, Guam. Killed on October 15, 2004 when his vehicle hit a land mine (Iraq); Steven Bayow, 42, Yap. Killed on February 2, 2005 when a bomb hit the vehicle he was in (Iraq); Derence Jack, 31, and Wilgene Lieto, 28, Saipan. Both killed on October 30, 2005 in a roadside bomb attack (Iraq); Richard DeGracia Naputi Jr., 24, Guam. Killed on December 21, 2005 when a bomb detonated during combat operations (Iraq); Kasper Allen Camacho Dudkiewicz, 23, Guam. Killed on January 15, 2006 in a vehicle collision (Iraq); Henry Paul, 24, Pohnpei. Died on September 26, 2006 from injuries he received after a vehicle collision (Iraq); Jesse Castro, 22, Guam. Killed on December 6, 2006 from a roadside explosion (Iraq); Adam Quitugua Emul, 20, Saipan. Killed on January 29, 2007 while conducting combat operations (Iraq); Lee Roy Apatang Camacho, 27, Saipan. Died on February 9, 2007 from wounds he sustained from an explosion (Iraq); Gregory D. Fejeran and Christopher Fernandez, both 28, Guam. Killed on March 6, 2007 when the vehicle they were in rolled over (Ethiopia); John D. Flores, 21, Guam. Killed on May 3, 2007 after an attack on his unit (Iraq); Victor Michael Fontanilla, 23, Tinian. Killed on May 17, 2007 in a bomb blast (Iraq); Iosiwo Uruo, 27, Chuuk. Died on May 24, 2007 from wounds resulting from an attack on his unit (Iraq); Meresebang Ngiraked, 21, Palau. Died on June 10, 2007 from injuries sustained in an explosion. (Iraq); Jose Charfauros Jr., 33, Rota. Killed along with thirteen other soldiers (Iraq); Henry Ofeciar, 37, Guam. Died on August 27, 2007 from an attack on his unit (Afghanistan); Joseph Gamboa, 34, Guam. Died on March 29, 2008 from injuries sustained after indirect fire (Iraq); Christopher A. Quitugua, 28, Guam. Killed on June 19, 2008 after the vehicle he was in flipped after a tire blowout (Iraq); Samson A. Mora, 28, and Brian S. Leon Guerrero, 34, Guam. Killed on July 10, 2008 when the vehicle they were in hit an improvised explosive device (Afghanistan); Anthony “Tony” Carbullido, 25, Guam. Killed on August 8, 2008 when the vehicle he was in hit an improvised explosive device (Afghanistan).