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is fun and it's playing catch up on two curfews for schools to close in the summer . we can be back with more news in the us than thirty minutes time you can always follow developments on our web site www dot com up next the second part of our special report on the songs of the anti vietnam war movement in the west in the one nine hundred sixty s. that altered the course of history and i go away. oh two or vietnam when you meant a black soldier you know he had it debbie had a special handshake you could even you got to the point where you could even till what part of the country he was from because everybody had their distinctive the death or handshake he definitely could tell if he was the new company because everybody knew everybody had their little knew what to. do you know the problem oh my god i'm glad i don't know or they just check back. with you know we got to come. by.

the snappiest ready to swear that first just that hide and the down this way like a sony always do as well if you like a break from don you're out right. there you go that's it better to me the blood oh it's just going to bases big a big big big hit they've been going to jail for the power would be this really we're going to tell a thing where we believe that they've been going to jail the dog just don't. belong in jail was it just keep in the moment be it was pretty much just like jails in america play and i'm saying black there was a lot of bouncing in this prison a lot of stuff people with a gui pretty dire situation. a group of the inmates got together and we decided a. good excuse for this place. but happened was is that the result was

alone would be. costly. they burnt down the jail and he was just made a lot of people get killed. i'm so badly so. i was going to survive them out of what good did you come to the deceased and. you know when you're laying on your back you can't move for doing in and day out you have a lot of time that think soon and think about what you did you know what you've done and things that you've done to the people that you you people that are. i mean there's always something that reminds you. that you don't hear. things that you see then. you actually see what i saw what was

going on in the states. due to running down the streets and wearing the same kind of uniform that i got. there in memphis there that they've beaten up on people. what made it we were over here beating up on people over here and at the same time you guys were in the same identical uniforms that i'm going to have and you're beating up on. black people dong the runner near where tanks are on the street. in the summer of one nine hundred sixty eight army and national guard troops were sent into american cities as thousands of black people rioted following the assassination of martin luther king. that spring troops were used against antiwar demonstrators at the pentagon. then in august soldiers at fort hood were told they would be sent to chicago where

antiwar demonstrations were planned for the democratic party's national convention . we just come back from fighting the vietnamese not i want us to fight the americans. the night before the troops are supposed to leave there was a meeting of blood as they gathered up in a parking lot in the first armored division section and they were out there all night talking to you know. really why they were opposed to going to chicago where making it clear that it was a gentle south and it was going to go on and how can i go and commit genocide on my people shoot my people and one hundred black g.s. and the straight feel brothers came up and really started to point it on the end about you know discrimination and unfair treatment not getting the right in need it about what was happening with the war as the meeting stretched into the night fort hood's commanding general showed up to talk to the g.i.'s he said i'm just

a two star general let me go and talk to my boss and i have an answer for you in the morning so you know we just relax you know went to sleep i was sent cracked said that he cracked me a sad to hear. you know you know what they had to go i know m.p.'s all around this man you know what are you going to be ten m.p.'s you know it came at us with this. you know you would have been. and in the area every now and then you open this formation up and grouper in peace come in and grab a brother and take him back and back and beat the shit outta here screaming in the bed you know. see. and they were court martialed brought up on various charges but it scared the hell out of the military then they want to round and went to a roster of all the units who are supposed to go and took off who they considered

to be quotes of verses. so a number of people myself included. one of the most infamous events the nine hundred sixty s. chicago police brutally attacked demonstrators in front of the democratic convention although the army had sent a contingent of riot control troops to chicago from fort hood that kept them on the street. is no longer certain which side the g.i. . the military had a problem on and it was about to go from bad to worse. we were in. the practice line i believe it was a long line of us and we see this commotion kind of started to being in the line and then start come up towards us and we could see people like one guy would turn to the guy behind them and they'd there be this excited conversation and then that guy would turn to the guy behind him and finally the guy in front of me got the

noose and he turns around and he says to me they're killing women and children in vietnam i said who is killing women and children the vietcong he said no we are. sixteen thousand nine hundred sixty eight the soldiers of charlie company eleventh brigade america division entered the village and me like twenty four hours later over five hundred villagers men women and children lay dead brutally and want to leave murdered in cold blood around the world to me live massacre would become the touchstone in fact of the vietnam war. for over a year the american military covered up to me live massacre claiming only enemy soldiers were killed and when the truth was finally brought to light by journalists the highest ranking officer blamed him prosecuted was william calley a lieutenant. in a cramped detroit hotel a new organization vietnam veterans against the war held an unprecedented

investigation that exposed a much deeper truth i think the winter soldier investigation was to try to point out it wasn't really in defense of cali but it was going after the notion that the policies of the u.s. military created things like me lie ok but it was a policy it was both a written and an unwritten policy and the truth has to be told you can't duck away from the truth you can't lie and put up a smokescreen and say oh this is a the words they used back then an isolated instance of aberdeen behavior you are just coming home saying i'm against the war you're saying this is what we did this is how we did it this was a crime this was wrong helped people to really cross the bridge and to see us in a way that i think the anti-war movement had not seen g.i.'s before america went through went through a choke ok because they didn't want to believe that these things occurred in the

name of the american people supposedly is supporting freedom and liberation and democracy throughout the world and there is this terrible slaughter this turtle in aim slaughter so i think the question was why are they going after cali where cali was doing precisely what we were all told to do when we were in vietnam essentially ok which is kill them all and sort it out later. i had a friend who was he was an advisor with a group and one time he asked me would i like to accompany you into a village that was milieu with see how they act so i went with them and. they didn't find any enemy but they found a woman with bandages so she was questioned. about she was questioned by six when the questions are advantages. they shot as she was about twenty times that she was questioned. of course dead. this guy came over who was knowing him he was a former major in the service is twenty years nic you've got hungry again and came

back over working with usa id eight international development and. he went over there and rip the clothes off into the night. all the way up well just about up to her breast and her organs out completely out of or cavity amount and then he stopped over and commenced to feel every bit of skin off her body and left her there as a as a scientist something or other and i went and listened to three days of testimony and absolutely came away from an emotionally drained and floored by it i never grasped even up to that point how powerful was the genocidal plans and strategy of the us towards the people on every level. whether was agent orange and dow chemical reconfiguring the napalm because the napalm was a stick into the be skint. i mean that was you know all of this just added to the

overwhelming sense of the criminality. this was armed forces day and in many cities across the country there were the usual parades displays and bands but the recent surge of protest over the war in indochina cast a shadow over today's activities this was even some military bases where the presence of anti-war demonstrators led to the cancellation of planned observances thousand g.i.'s marched the first year. they told people limits and they told people that if you want to get arrested. we're putting up plywood coverings on your windows because the cops told it was going to turn into a riot but then people decided to change it just because you know we thought of making fun of your enemy was. the second year nine hundred seventy one.

three four. conceivable indicate our army that now remains in vietnam is in a state approaching collapse but individual units avoiding or having refused combat murdering their officers and noncommissioned officers. and dispirited were not. by the pentagon's own figures during the ten years of the vietnam war five hundred thousand soldiers. in the face of the term an unprecedented antiwar movement and military. lapse the nixon administration

announced the policy of vietnam the sation an effort to shift the burden of combat to the south vietnamese army while american jets bombarded north vietnam from the skies. nixon trama stet american ground troops would no longer be involved in offensive combat. this is richard boyle firebase pace. from the cambodian border sitting in a bunker doesn't run the first captain a lot of people are kind of wondering if anybody back in the world knows that we're out here. like. two batteries or a tourist posters on groceries with nobody we don't even exist. you just need. we're not supposed to be in combat that's why the american army deny that they were there you know that far as america was before this i got there weren't american troops on the border. it would be playing out in my office and. saying

why no or. why you go back home the north vietnamese were had they had two regiments to crack regiments totally surrounding the fire base this place was like no. bathrooms we start going out there will be sitting ducks you know the best thing of order. to try to hire a hired man or have to go on thursday just set us on the captain crowed in order to six men to go out on a night ambush what was basically a suicide mission because he sent six guys out against two regiments and they said we're going to do it when going to go and the only option it was was to get word out to the outside world and they wrote a petition at the ready we are under siege in firebase pace we are faced daily with the decision of whether to take a court martial artist to pick them up that's a brawl in the event of mass prosecution. very unit our only hope would be.

nixon was so afraid ordered that company pulled out they sent in another company they'd heard about the refusal of alpha company the other company also refused to fight and after that no company notes troops would be willing to fight and said look we're not going to fight anymore. there are more problems to winding down the vietnam war than just holding the enemy and moving south vietnamese troops into the line one unforeseen problem is trying to keep up the morale of g.i.'s who know they're going on but not soon enough it has produced plenty grit insubordination shooting of officers by their own men and a definite practice called fragging of the dual purpose in my mind was he did to get me or intimidate and myself and all others in authority in the

company and battalion sergeant gene tenley is saying that some of his own men tried to maim or kill him but it's not an isolated incident since then one officer has been killed another wounded at this base and there have been dozens of similar incidents all across south vietnam because the fragmentation grenade is often the weapon used the violent attacks on authority have come to be known as fragging and many g.i.'s talk openly about fragging and the military countermeasures seen more than one big group meeting where. actually all they talk about is fragment as we call pigs. by picture talking about your senior enlisted men in your officers that's correct the most common terms. forced to rely almost solely on the air war of one thousand nine hundred seventy two when the united states launched an unprecedented barrage on vietnam dropping more tonnage of bombs on that tiny country that were used. during world war two and with the assault coming mainly for

america. sailors and airmen became the center of the g.i. movement on the u.s.s. coral sea twelve hundred signed a petition demanding the ship stay home and san diego california home of the carriers constellation and kitty hawk spawn the movement led by a group of navy officers and enlisted men. we truly believe what would stop that war was in the soldiers stop fighting it still an active officer as were all these other guys and sailors and enlisted people as we sat around and brainstormed about what kind of a nonviolent action can we take that can actually touch sailors. around and we saw the aircraft the biggest ship in san diego harbor the most impressive. it's hard for people to realize this but that ship is not a naval ship it's really part of airpower and we used to attack as it's it's

a weapon of a boeing weapon of aggression. the original concept kain well let's do something where we allow the people on board that ship to cast a ballot as to whether or not they think they should go back to vietnam let's just hear their voice and then we said now this election should be held in every shopping center in san diego county and every safeway store ought to have a little polling booth outside and we have to see how many ballots we can collect and we're going to point toward a day. to day ok. ok in a day they call it a living. eck i was a carrier qualified aviator and i gave me a lot of credibility with people earned or not or and even though i hadn't been in combat. people would give you

a certain amount. creedence of course because i knew all whole lot of that out military function. name then. printed a. relic question why do you people look so weird. you just look normal up. there was this inside out we would call it where we would where we were collecting more and more of the sailors to get them involved to get what for and they want to end the war nations war. there was nobody from the captain of that ship to the mayor of the cities or did not hold a press conference about this project everybody was commenting on it us senators

were commenting on it you know even if the city folds for that ship to stay we're still going without thinking as though because that's a big ever the ship says well i know there's a lot of people on the ship who don't want to go but military is full of malcontents because it listen. now doc. while denying that the g.i. movement even existed the house internal security committee of the united states congress held a series of hearings in one thousand nine hundred seventy one that produced thousands of pages of testimony illustrating how broadly and deeply that movement had spread that same year the f.d.a. show tour days despite being banned from military bases worldwide. the show

performed in japan okinawa and the philippines for over sixty thousand soldiers and every stop g.i.'s took the stage with them we can no longer remain silent about trustees and injustice being perpetrated by the united states military and peoples of other nations and all the petty harassment the servicemen and women i made two hundred day after day week to me for this policy would go first because there are a. lot of the many against first not just anti war g.i. because they do not agree with us with the. media and co for all of all your ground troops and cia from vietnam as well as from korea open our japan the philippines israel cambodia thailand germany england panama. i mean it seems unthinkable now that we could have done this. and that you could

have a hall full of guys with their fists in the air sung happy . that we had come to acknowledge their reality. and do you most. and refuse to kill. you said no man will lose you and me. what he's fighting force to be free i used to love to watch the faces of the g.i.'s when she sang that it was like this shell attention would drop away and you would see the youth and the innocence and the vulnerability underneath stone to. stand strong on closets. what.

is true. this is true. and there's a full of nine hundred seventy one just five years after how it levy and donald duck and flown acts of protest thousands of vietnam veterans against the war converged on washington d.c. and threw their medals onto the capitol steps. we had to fight at every take that. you know it's kind of a unique opportunity it's very it's very rare i think in anybody's life that you have an opportunity to really think that you are changing history that you're a part of history at first they couldn't boy protest in a war that blew her mind or use those images in nineteen so they thought they dated nor react to that because they thought there were

a bunch of them they got out there and. we all just thought it but i'm going to go farther i really learned so much so just spend a day after day after day you know just people talking about you know what it's all about how we're going to deal with this stuff and how we will go forward change the world that's what we want to do course would change the world we're pretty sure this sucks you know we're pretty sure those deserve to be here and so that didn't leave much room but to change the world you know people said we keep going back we went back to get not just keep going back to vietnam because i tell you what the other side does they're always going back and they have to go back the hawks you know the patriarchs they have to go back because and they have to revise the going back because they can't allow us to know what the what the back there really was don't you think about this shit and you say. again they are.

extremely neck checked. the government pushed me in two days she asked. what's the what's the pride in saying you're a veteran if you're what you're a veteran to something. like. being. a veteran of the massacre at some place or another you know i. know there's no pride. here so don't talk about kuwait. so it's amazing to me that as many as many g.i.'s who were actually in vietnam actually there. then spoke out against it and demonstrated against it and it just. means. that there is. and that if there had been one hundred i would have been made that there was thousands missis.

incredible. brave people. would. just to. give. a body expect them so i took out the forms to track them. and they said they. might be and as most parts of. this new having been hit by. the way they would be that god is. not going to come up with a theme. that was read to me like. that now so.

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