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targeting the country's oil exports which accounts for twenty five percent of its entire income and critics say the blogs only doing it now because it feels boy deprived of success in securing libya's vast oil reserves. it's time for a special report on the antiwar movement in the u.s. that emerged during the vietnam conflict and how it changed the course of history and that's next with a summary of the news and more stories for you in half an hour from now. in the early one nine hundred sixty s. the united states government began sending combat troops to south vietnam. and therefore it will make them go down her grave and. ask yourself what's going to happen. america's stated goal was to spread democracy and defend freedom thirty years later the legacy of that ten year war which left fifty thousand americans and over three million vietnamese dead still remains unsettled. and in the decade to

debate the fall of the end of the war some stories have yet to clear. the day your soldiers sailors airmen marines and coast guard are better educated than before are better for. traditional american ingenuity and if. not better as a post fact at higher up and understand what it is all about. philip . zelikow. you misunderstand the kind of like being. i think it's good. but i feel for the military are we near gurnall in basic training and this fabric of portraiture

school or school work like i want to. really get a grip i try to spend my whole life having people live a better life and basically feel better since witness is still around. they tried to trick me into a kill they tried to turn me into somebody who could take a life if there's one thing in real life i feel i could ever call friends to say i didn't give them a credit. straight to my hair and kind of my will be good for a good couple for profit model for. you know those almost three which cross the pacific. there wasn't too much to do on a troop ships old set up on the darkest night never read a lot of time to get to where we are what we're going to what was right or off we go back and forth back and forth and we always an open cooling well that's all

we're doing the right thing because as the world all. during the vietnam war any more movement emerged that altered the course of history this movement didn't take place on college campuses but in parents and on ships that flourished in army stockades maybe gregg's in the dingy towns right military bases. and penetrated elite military colleges like west point and it spread throughout the battlefields of vietnam. it was a movement no one expected least of all the semi hundred twenty prison of thousands into exile and by nine hundred seventy one it had in the words of one colonel in fact the entire services. here 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 the elite green berets the problem i am was realizing what i was doing was not good i was

doing it right but i wasn't doing the right. i was asked to train green beret people special forces men why were they training these guys to endure mythology while they were training them to do german taji 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 the 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 their band aids of helping to cure a few cases of into thai go they were bombing the hell out of the villages. i was out on patrol. near hip. and. we took a couple of prisoners and whether they were combatants or not you know. their

patrol was led by the americans but they were yemenis are even there and they were turned over to our. can use the old fashioned methods who interrogation 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 that was really sickening and death of everything i've been talking everything i've learned everything i grew up with this is just not the way you treat human beings. and it's all done for the good of the cause like yes. i got out of the military in ninety sixty six i got out because the things i saw the things i was doing and the 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 in vietnam more and more reports of and i felt

that i just couldn't be a part of it 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 and ethical and i just stopped throughout 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 and i'm not training at that point it was obvious that it was going to be court martial a few days later i got to court martial nokes. howard levy spent three years in prison. along with him three g.i.'s at 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 one thousand nine hundred eighty six former green beret donald duncan was the featured speaker at antiwar a meeting at the town hall in manhattan i just wanted to do what i knew about it. and it would let people then 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 a quad watch 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 fisa well 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 you know i. think. i wouldn't inch i don't know how many but i know how many i met those the majority of the men that i met in the service were opposed but didn't know how to force their opinion and give it much thought. yes. nine hundred sixty eight was the turning point by then america had over half a million troops in south vietnam during the lunar new year holiday called tet the enemy the north vietnamese and 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 to a wall were absent without leave many found their way to san francisco where series of events brought the emerging g.i. eighteen war movement onto the national stage. we joined together. then she was right she's sixty eight we took sanctuary in the church changed our sense of ministers. real centrally called the press and said. we're not going to give it up we're refusing orders and in fact we were designing from the military to come against. the fact that it took them three days to decide how to deal with this conflict it was great. to lose.

and had no idea what was going to come 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. yeah and that was my introduction to be a surfer scope presidio stockade. the population fluctuate usually upwards it was built i think in the cold light of the sixty's and they were sort of sometimes double that in there. that were crowded. for the. food was sure guards were mean there was this 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. zim veterans i was in a 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 g.i. is 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 they. we can hire a small private plane loaded up with leaflets and drop the leaflets on the trades sent. thousands and thousands of leaflets. one point i know we were a little concerned. but nothing evidently baby landed pretty accurately that's for the test of my clock my shop. and on my way

driving into the demonstration i decided i was going to wear my name you know for. my opinion was fairly straightforward it was more like we are his uniform for the war talking congress as an active duty person i certainly had the same rights that he did and i could wear my uniform protesting the united states all. sins and was court martialed by the navy for making a political statement while in uniform and following the march for a while the g.i.'s turn themselves into the pursued the 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 their shot this prisoner and killed him were 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 the work detail. but the guard shot him and killed him you know point blank his only crime was so i want to be there. going to war. because he was really gauge. for no good reason not unlike a lot of his brothers. in a car so so. we reacted. viscerally. with anger and disgust at our age. toward actually all. the wires over the walls we ripped the squawk box off the wall and then things started to calm down because we started playing we came to a decision that 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 good response to break ranks and we did and then we walk over here and sat down at

a certain point came out and read as you can we just kept saying louder and kind of linked arms i'm saying we were scared enough to tell you we're really scared we have them right where we want to they're finally listening to us that's the first time i can 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 that 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 a life. you know i kind of came it was unable you know with the two days because the stockade i was i was based in that sense. for singing we shall overcome.

nationwide support the city when he said. i was wounded three times while i was in the bush and then third time i was a wonder was on the summer of one of sixty seven and we got overrun by north vietnamese regulars they started like a human wave j. . guy came up behind our old stove his rifle in the hall and i sort of it would make a forty seven or more where i am i am sixteen point zero when i started pulled my trigger when i saw a case. and a bullet hit me in the news and i blacked out came to a few minutes later and the gun was jammed in my new was shared. after the fighting ended and the sun came up and they carried me over to this guy who would shout at

me and he was sitting up with gaza trees and he was. three pulls up his chest and he has a tree lay in a crosas boy in a sergeant soldiers are killed he just good. news guy and he was about my age and. and i said think in your old place he did not live it was just a matter of pure luck and i started thinking oh i wonder if he had a girlfriend it was from his mother's will find things like. the one you just went through the experience of that nature and you 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 gone i couldn't stop i mean i couldn't be so you know i felt 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 but it was the first shot where i was you know the barrel was him and looked him in the face afterwards and i

vote a certain amount of responsibility to him to make good his life to visit his death not be in vain meant that i had to try 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 move as there. 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 pain. or g.i. coffee house it's located in a town that hover near a military base in. the dusty texas town of killeen just outside fort hood which talented over twenty thousand troops he came home with a g.i. coffee house known as the on the office from. being in the army you know here in town and right. i can sit here and

you know many are committed to our. name only i was struck from a shock absorber on a holiday so that's what do yo yos throw it was it was a place where you go there and it's old soldiers and they had a record player and all the latest rock records and underground favors and using out right. and to go out on them was like one period we go out on the ambush and sneak over fifty people in. the early morning and stuff. because they've got to get ready you know who's there. a majority of the women and you know they do it with their grandma they were very. very very good and they're they're friends don't let anyone thinks you can back out of them and hopefully be a good thing to see them and see any of you making it because of the supporting.

you know put on has cropped up at several army bases these days or so gone underground g.i. press which consists largely of i war newspapers military authorities are clamping down hard on the papers recently there was an underground newspaper laying on the bed was called the last harass a free man they were free content this is the rise material and this is a person material there are a lot of how many copies this inside the barracks go. turnus in a media break that like the paper there with one of the barracks everybody's reading two or three guys a time sitting around on a bed around guys beds and stuff like that check out this paper what i liked about it was the fact that the officers hated. it had to be good to happen to have to do something about this that was cooked types mimeographed printed the g.i. underground press exploded. traveling forward in jordan last harass

washington for any ga air force for your bombers or text or just take down the fort hood texas press it's published by a group of radical soldiers stationed at this army place and we used to distribute it clandestinely on bags from all around and leave bunches of them in there it says would go through nightly month. if you were caught distributing literature there was a court martial friends shortly after the first issue was published the g.i. who founded the fatigue press gypsy peterson was pulled over by fort hood police and a vacuum down his car and claim to follow the remnants of marijuana and arrested him for america's national marijuana in an attempt to suppress his movement following a two day trial in the texas court gypsy peterson was sentenced to eight years in prison for fraud north carolina's police were jackson's south shore crimes are are just beside despite the military's best efforts the underground press became the

life blood of the g.i. movement as the army's own recruiting slogan fun traveling to venture turned into the popular g.i. expression 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 and medals. you know i grew up during the good wars here's this woman 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 particularly 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 give them to i'm going to help support it and build it you know it's not all like that you have to be a show i think is a terrible demonstration going on outside how there's always

a demonstration going on outside richard this one is completely out of control let me ask you point this time very agitated from all political prisoners out yet not have perhaps all government official we have to care about. your job and i would like to know not just now just going oh why how are actors i better call out a third marine you can't richard why not. for years program or comedian bob hope to tour vietnam entertaining american troops but soon the cheers turned to cheers and 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 together. an antiwar show that's you know the opposite side of the coin from the from the bob

hope show. tough luck outline that. 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. that 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 we come there because for the last year we have read in the newspapers from vietnam from from west germany from okinawa from the philippines and from what we want 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 up we don't know why our bodies are being killed we don't know why we're killing those people. the truck we're doing. we need. question here i feel all that they should be exempt from all military. all really good life there's a place where being. i'm not being a presenter. i'm not. guys who come from all over the country

so you get people coming in the different information about black power struggle at that you know black community you feel really good about you so you want to really question the community of my. act. but i remember one day the first sergeant was talking about google so yeah naive i was that you know you keep using racial. i don't really understand that you know one day he was all about groups and i remember like with over my head of this of the cuckoos the same things and then. things began to start clicking in my head like living room. culture is that so much different if you choose an issue as a person trying to go to friends reasons for optimism or more uncertainty and

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