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their schools in the south. and up next our special report on the start of the vietnam war movement in the u.s. in the nineteen sixty's that altered the course of history. toured vietnam you dog 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 deaf or handshake the deaf and they could tell the people within your company because everybody knew everybody had their world 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 high and then the down this way

like a sony always do as well if you like a break from don you around right. there you go that's it so that i can recall the blood's oh my specialty base was big a big big big hit even going to jail for the power would be just what we did to other things as well we've done a bit even going to jail the dog just don't. belong in jail was it just odd heat in the room in vietnam it was pretty much just like jails in america playing them said black there was a lot of violence and in this prison a lot of stuff people would be 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 being. caustic going

to be burnt down the jail and it was just made. by the people getting killed. i'm so badly so. i was going to survive the metal would get so deep into the deceased and. you know when you're laying on your back that you can't move for doing in a day out you have a lot of time that think soon you think about what you did you know what you've done and things that you've done to the people that you cue 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 i'm wearing the same kind of uniform that i got there in memphis there that they've

beaten up on people. we made it we we're over here beating up on people over here and at the same time you guys were in the same identical uniforms and 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 are 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 in a parking lot talking to you know an area like a rap session or rally why they were opposed to going to chicago where making it clear that it was a gentle south and is going to go on and how can i go and commit genocide on my people shoot my people and one hundred black jazz and the straight feel brothers came up and really started pointing 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 cracked up said

that he cracked me a sad to hear what they 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 we've been this. you know you would have been. and in there is every now and then you open this formation up and a group or impeach come in and grab a brother and take him back in the back and beat the shit outta here screaming in the back you know. and they were court martialed brought up on various court martial charges but it scared the hell out of the military. then they want to round and went through a roster of all the units who are supposed to go and talk. to be quotes of vs 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 right control troops to chicago from fort hood they kept them on the street. was 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 assent 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 there'd be this excited conversation and then that guy would turn to the guy behind him and finally the guy and try to make up the noose and he turns around and he says to me they're killing women and children in vietnam i said who's killing women and children the vietcong and he said no we

are. sixteen thousand nine hundred sixty eight the soldiers of charlie company eleventh brigade america division entered the village of me lie 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 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 was this terrible slaughter this turmoil

in ames slaughter so i think the question was. why are they going after kally we're calley 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. enquiry city i had a friend who is a he was an advisor with a group and one time he asked me would i like to accompany him to 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 they questioned her with and she advantages. they shouted 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 he got hungry again and came back over working with usa id eight international development and. he

went over there and ripped 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 peel 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 i never grasped even up to that point how powerful was the genocidal plans and strategy of the us was that the people on every level. whether was agent orange and dow chemical we can figure it in the napalm because the napalm was a stick into the skin. and that was all of this just added to the overwhelming sense of the criminality of the united states.

forces day and in many cities across the country there were the usual parades displays and. the recent surge of protest over the war in indochina cast a shadow over today's activities. some military bases where the presence of anti-war demonstrators led to the. plywood or windows because the cops told it was going to. but then people change it . because we thought making fun of me was a. second nine hundred seventy one. three.

our army. is in a state approaching collapse with individual units of having refused combat murdering their officers and noncommissioned officers. and dispirited. by the pentagon's own figures during the ten years of the vietnam war five hundred thousand soldiers. in the face of the. war movement military near. the nixon administration the policy is. to shift the burden of the.

promised that american ground troops would no longer be involved in offensive combat. this is richard boyle firebase pace should love letters from the cambodian border sitting in a bunker but it doesn't run the first chapter a lot of people are kind of wondering if anybody back in the world knows that we're on to. like. two batteries or a tourist posters and on groceries like nobody we don't even exist. we just need a miracle troops we're not supposed to be in combat that's why the american army tonight that they were there you know that far as america was before this i got there were no american troops on the border isn't going. to be fighting a democracy. why no are you all right you go back home the north vietnamese were had they had two regiments two cracked regiments stoli surrounding

the fire base this place was like you know. the answer is we start going out there will be sitting ducks you know that's the thing about order think he's. going to try to hire a hired man they don't have to go on thursday just set us on the captain crowed and ordered six men to go out on a night ambush which is 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 and firebase pace we are faced with the decision of whether to take a court martial artist a fate an offense a brawl in the event of mass prosecution of our unit i only hope would be public opinion. nixon was so afraid

ordered that company pulled out they sent in a. never company they had heard about the refusal of alpha company the other company also refused to fight and after that no company knows 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 deadly practice called fragging purpose my mind was heated to get me or intimidate to myself and all others in authority in the company in the time in charge and later 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 were . actually all they talk about is frag and 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 the united states launched an unprecedented barrage of vietnam dropping more tonnage of bombs on that tiny country that were used during world war two and with the assault coming mainly from aircraft carrier 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 care. it's 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 when the soldiers stopped 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 our. it's hard for people to realize this but that ship is not a naval ship anymore 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 cain 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 no 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 on a day to day old day 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 of credence of course because i knew all whole lot about how the military functioned. any of. us then.

as i got through the day. here. well the question is why do you people look so weird. 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 give them up for you know if they want to end the war nations want. there's 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 us senators were commenting on it you know even if the city folds to for that ship to stay we're still going without things just like oh 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.c.a. show tour de janeiro 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 make silent about the atrocities going to jump. just 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. i mean policy against firstly because there are a. lot of the many against first soldiers anti-war g.i. because they do not agree with us with the. media in kosovo air and ground troops and cia from vietnam as well as from korea wow 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 forces 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 of tension would drop away and you would see the youth and the innocence and the vulnerability underneath stone to. stand strong on closer. what do you. do this is true. this is true.

then spent 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 on to the capitol steps. without a fight at n.b.c. take the stand. you know it's kind of a unique opportunity it's very it's very rare i think in 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 avoid protests in a war that the buddha or mines or we had a thousand years in one thousand so they thought they did know our reacted it was a saudi her a bunch of them a good out there and. we all just thought it but i'm going to go farther i really learned so much you know 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 are really going to look forward change the world that's what we want to do for it would change the world we're pretty sure this sucks you know we're pretty sure those deserve to be here and so that did leave much room but to change the world you know people so 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. gad damn. but i'm extremely 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 are what your veteran is 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 go away. 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. just. there was. that if there had been one hundred i would have been made that there was thousands missis. incredibly. brave people. would.

walk out. by. the most part. by. the way that. god is. nothing like.