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what's going to happen. america's stated goal was to spread democracy and defend freedom but thirty years later the legacy of that ten year war which left fifty thousand americans and over three million vietnamese dead still remains on set. and in the decade that followed the end of the war some stories of yet. today your soldiers sailors airmen marines and coast guard up better educated people are better for. traditional american ingenuity and it's. far better as it goes faster at high morale and understanding what the war is all about. was. still down.

a. misunderstanding kind of like being. inside you the good. news here are we near gurnall and basic training and this crap and reports are just school ordinary people want to suck it. really get over it i try to spend my whole life having people live a better life and basically feel fitter than swimmers are still around. they try to trick me into a kill they try to trick me into somebody who takes a life it's just one thing in my life i feel like they're the focus there so i try to look at it the president. shaking my hand. and the amount will be an insight into a more prominent one but. you know there's almost an which cross the pacific.

there wasn't much to do on a troop ship so he showed up on the budget nightmare wraps a lot of time to get to where we are what we're going to what he was later on and we go back and forth back and forth and we always end up concluding mobile so we're doing the right thing because as a result. during the vietnam war an antiwar movement emerged that altered the course of history of this movement to take place on college campuses but in the. eriksen on ships it's the worst in arms stockades maybe gregg's in the dingy towns around the trade bases. it's penetrated elite military colleges like west point and it spread throughout the battlefield. it was a movement no one expected least of all the seven hundred twenty prison and thousands attacks by nec in seventy one it had in the words of one colonel in fact the entire service and. yet today few people know about the g.i. movement against the war in vietnam. and i was really proud of what i thought i was

doing there earliest days of the war planted the seeds for the movement to come even among the first american troops in vietnam filipe green berets the problem i had was realizing that what i was doing was not good i was doing it right but i wasn't doing right. i was asked to train green great people special forces men why would they training these guys to in germany they were training them to do dermatology in vietnam because they knew that if they were able to offer a few simple remedies and help cure a few children of some simple bacterial infections that that would shape themselves to the vietnamese community and you know you remember the phrase that winning the hearts and minds of the people so this was this was how you were going to win the hearts and minds of the people and while they were offering the band aids of

helping to cure a few cases of into tie go they were bombing the hell out of the villages. on a patrol. and your hip well and. we took a couple of prisoners and whether they were combatants or not you know. patrol was led by americans but three vietnamese are in there and they were turned over to her and. then use the old fashioned methods who interrogation and force torture that was pretty common practice. i tell you as bad as that is that is that treatment was the cynicism that attached to it was a part of it is really sickening and death of everything i've been talking to thing i've learned everything i grew up with this is just not the way he treats human beings. and it's all done for the good of the cause that yes. i got out of the

military in nine hundred sixty six i got out because of things i saw the things that i was doing and this reasons that we were given for doing it was a personal protest it was just me getting out of the service and there was no movement to join i found the war. more and more repulsive and i felt that i just couldn't be a part of eventually i said look i'm not training you guys anymore i don't agree with what you're doing i think it's immoral i think it's medically ethical and i just stopped through out of the clinic. it took a few weeks for the army to catch up with that and when they did they invited me into the commanding officer office and said look what are you doing here and i told them exactly what i was doing i said i'm not training and they said well you know you should know the consequences of that and i said i'm perfectly aware of the consequences so i'm not training at that point it was obvious that i was going to be court martialled a few days later i got to court martial nokes. howard levy spent three years in

prison. along with him three g.i.'s a fort hood who refused orders to vietnam and received five years hard labor and a dishonorable discharge army lieutenant henry how who carried a sign at a demonstration reading and johnson's fascist aggression in vietnam was sentenced to two years and two marines william harvey and george daniel received six to ten year sentences for organizing a meeting about whether black people should fight in vietnam. and on march third nine hundred sixty six former green beret donald duncan was the featured speaker at antiwar meeting at the town hall in manhattan i just wanted to do what i knew about it. and we'll let people judge for themselves. i think the most startling thing to me occurred however as the court martial began

what would happen was we would walk from the parking lot to the building with aquash was being held and it was the most remarkable thing when hundreds hundreds of g.i. s. would hang out of windows out of the barracks and give me the v. sign will give me that clenched fist this was mine but to me this was a revelation and at that point it really became crystal clear to me that something had changed and that something very very important was happening. only people would. think. yes. i would inch i really don't know how many but i know how many i met in the years the majority of the men that i met in the service were opposed or really didn't know how to force their opinions to give it much thought. yes.

nine hundred sixty eight was the turning point by then america had over a half a million troops in south vietnam during the lunar new year holiday called attack the enemy the north vietnamese the national liberation front arms launched an offensive that overran the entire country before being pushed back the tet offensive revealed that the enemy had widespread support from the vietnamese people and america was mired in a war it couldn't win and the soldiers beginning to question the war in the wake of the tet offensive thousands began going a wrong or absent without leave many found their way to san francisco where series of events brought the emerging g.i. antiwar movement onto the national stage. we joined together. sure why my g.'s sixty eight weeks of sanctuary in the church changed our sense ministers.

we essentially called the press and said to them we're not going to get it were refusing orders and in fact we were designing for the military to come and get it. the fact that it took them three days to decide how to deal with the sack of play was great. had nothing to lose. and i had no idea what was going to come up and that's a free place to really free place you know you're you know what's going to happen you know where you're going but you know what you're doing. to me. yeah and that was my introduction to the search for school presidio struck a. feeling of elation for sure usually upwards was killed i think in the cold light of the sixty's you know there were some sometimes double that in there. that were crowded

. for the church. for sure guards for me it was really fun. with the nine for peace held in military prisons soldiers throughout the bay area began planning for the first and she wore demonstration in the country organized by g.i.'s and veterans i was an eye member of the medical committee for human rights we got together a number of times and talked about how we were going to organize active duty to go to the peace demonstration and then i remember also hearing about the b. fifty two bombers that were dropping leaflets on vietnam urging the vietnamese to defect and i thought well if they can do it overseas then we can hire a small fry plane loaded up with leaflets and drop leaflets on the trades sounds. ballasts and thousands of leaflets and one point you know we were

a little concerned about it. but nothing. evidently they landed pretty accurately that's what they testified to my shock. and awe on my way. trying to see if the demonstration i decided was going to win or find me for. my opinion was fairly straightforward it was westmoreland we are his far before the war. as an active duty person i certainly have the same rights that he did and i could wear my uniform protesting the united states. says installed this court martial by the navy for making a political statement involving uniform and following the march for a while g.i. has turned themselves into the presidio army stockade keith mathur was being held

so had been assigned kind of by the movement people to go into the stockade and find out what was going on because they had that they had shot this prisoner and killed him or nineteen year old private michael veitch life in the army had been a little more than a series of a wall violations his last stop was here at the presidio stockade where he was fatally shot last friday while trying to escape from a work detail. for the guards shot him and killed him you know point blank and his only crime of so i want to be there and. going to war. because he was cut down a really young age and for no good reason not unlike a lot of his brothers. in a car so. so we reacted. viscerally. with anger and disgust in our rage. he tore the jail card we ripped the wires out of the walls we ripped the squawk box off the

wall and then things started called down because we started playing we came to a decision their best thing we could do was to have some kind of a demonstration and it was at the roll call of formation we had a signal that was what was supposed to break ranks and we did and then we walk over here and sat down at a certain points. came out red as. we just kept saying louder and to link arms and sing saying we were so scared and i'll tell you we are really scared we have a right where we want to finally listening to what you know that's the first time i could ever remember anybody listening to us while i was in the military. the commanding general of the sixth army which was the jurisdiction he said that they thought that the revolution was about to start and they really had to set an example you know come down hard and we were the guys that they decided to do that with and they did it i mean we were on trial for like. you know i kind of came it was unable and you know within two days of being the stockade i was on your space

and that's it. for singing we shall overcome. this nationwide support the city of twenty six. but i was one hundred three times while i was out in the bush and then the third time i was alone there was on the summer of one of sixty seven and we got overrun by north vietnamese regulars a sort of like a human wave a. new guy came up you know all stuck his rifle in the hall and i saw the front sight of an a k forty seven a muzzle flash and i am i am sixteen point zero when i saw the hold my trigger when

i saw a cage. and a ball hit me in a new and i blacked out came to a few minutes later and the gun was jammed and my new was shattered. after the fighting and in the sun came out and they carried me over to this guy which. me and he was sitting up against a tree stump and he was dead he had three bullet holes up his chest and ears a carry away in a grocer's boy in a sergeant soldier's google killed he did a good job as a news guy and he was about my age and. i said think you know why she did not live it was just a matter of pure luck and i started thinking oh i wonder if you had a girlfriend it was not always knows where to find things like. the one you just won through the experience of that nature any find out that it's all lies and you're just lying to the american people and your silence means that your party people have lied going i couldn't stop i mean i couldn't be so you know i thought i

had a responsibility to my friends and to the country in general and if you had to me the last guy who i shot i don't consider is the first shot but it was the first shot where i was shooting it out barrel of the barrel with him and looked him in the face afterwards and i felt a certain amount of responsibility to him to make sure his wife to visit his does not be in vain meant that i had a trial in every case for all of the justness that he was fighting for good believe he was fighting for his country so i became involved in a movement as well. with more and more soldiers turning against the war handful of peace activists open the first of what would become a network of dozens of patients who were g.i. coffee houses located in the town that hover near military bases. the dusty texas town of killeen just outside fort hood which talented over twenty thousand troops

they came home of the g.i. coffee house known as the army or stripes. the enemy army you know here and i can now name right. i consider. you know many are being met in our. name only a stroke came from a shock absorber on a holiday so that's what yo yos through it was it was a place where you go there are nice old soldiers and they had a record player and all the latest rock records and underground papers and losing out. and to go out on em was like one good to go on ambitions and be good to people in. the early morning and stuff. because they got a good guy who's there. i'm interested women are they doing their grammar they were

very. good they're there for something that anyone thinks he can back out of it and hopefully be a good guy and he's making it because he's going. to put on one of his cropped up and several army bases these days and so gone underground g.i. press which consists largely of i wore newspapers military authorities are clamping down hard on the papers recently there was an underground newspaper laying on the bed and it's called the last harass a free man they were thinking that this is the rise material and this is a person material there are a lot of how many copies this inside the barracks goes turnus going to media late that night then the paper there with one of the in the barracks everybody's reading two or three guys a time sitting around on a bed around guys beds and stuff like that checking out this paper what i liked

about it was the fact that the officers hated me. everything had to be good to happen for how to do something about this that was cooked tight mimeographed printed the g.i. underground press exploded. the tongue traveling backward in georgia last harass washing thread on fort benning georgia airforce for your bomb fort dix new jersey for the texas teen press it's published by a group of radical soldiers stationed at this army place and we used to distribute it clandestinely bags from go around and leave bunches of them and their actions would go through nightly month footlockers if you were caught distributing literature on base there was a court martial friends shortly after the first issue was published the g.i. who founded the tea press gypsy peterson was pulled over by fort hood police and a vacuum down his car and claim to follow the remnants of marijuana arrested him for merrill possession of marijuana in an attempt to suppress his movement

following a two day trial in a texas court gypsy peterson was sentenced to eight years in prison for fraud north carolina's brief for jackson sure the crimes are projected site worst despite the military's dastard efforts the underground press became the might lead of the g.i. movement as the army's own recruiting slogan fun travel and adventure turned into the popular g.i. expression and. the press lead soldiers around the world and inspired many outside the military you know i grew up believing that if our flag was flying over a battlefield that we were on the side of the angels my father fought in the second world war he won awards and medals and. you know i grew up during the good wars here's this one. who steps out onto the world stage is a famous actress comes from one of the ruling class families in hollywood and makes

a political decision to change sides she steps onto the side of the people and politically the vietnamese people she stands with the chiapas and she stands with the g.i. movement and she says i'm going to stand with this i'm going to get bent i'm going to help support it and build it you know it's not all like that you have to see a show i think that's a terrible demonstration going on outside although it's always a demonstration going on outside richard what is completely out of control or what they asking for this time for angela davis and all political prisoners out of vietnam and perhaps all government officials people to take care of that album good job you do your job and i'll do my job without you know just now just going to watch how actors are going to call out a third marine you can't richard why not. four years program or maybe even bob hope toured vietnam entertaining american troops but soon the cheers turned to cheers i mean a new kind of entertainment emerged. howard levy himself

a celebrity within the g.i. movement he met with donald sutherland and me and he said what if we put peek at their. an antiwar show that's you know the opposite side of the coin from from the bob hope show. that's up look at life. after the army we always said free the army or fun travel and adventure but it really meant the army. here was a way that i could combine my profession my acting with my desire to end the war it just seemed like a perfect fit. for this show that we bring to these bases is not trying to tell the

people on the bases anything that they don't know we are coming in response to what is probably the most powerful movement going on in this country the movement of the man inside the military and women who are beginning to understand how they're being used and what the nature of american foreign policy is and we come there because they have asked us to come there because for the last year we have read in the newspapers from vietnam from from west germany from open our work in the philippines and from what we want is entertainment we want people to speak to how we feel and the majority of us don't know why we're going over there that we don't know why we're being shot they don't know why our bodies are being killed we don't know why we're telling those people. i'd be sorry. if you will be ideally. we are not american. i feel all bad we should be exempt from all

military. all really good players you play where you're seeing. i'm not being. rude. and i'm not being oppressed by. guys who come from all over we come from so you good people come in with different information about black power struggle with it i mean you know black unity you feel really good about you so you want to really question you can you believe me. but i remember one day the first sergeant was talking about kooks so yeah naive i was that you know we keep using racial slurs i don't really understand that you know one day he was talking about gooks and i remember like went over my head this is good because the same things and then. things began to start clicking in my head like when we don't know.

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