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will matter ties with israel after the jews say fuses to apologize for the raid on the gaza bound have killed nine turkish citizens last year it follows a un investigation that blamed israel for using excessive force in the race. as the headlines next a special report of how an anti-war movement that emerged in the one hundred sixty s. altered the course of history. in the early one nine hundred sixty s. the united states government began sending combat troops to south vietnam. and therefore it would make them go down or greater. ask yourself what's going to happen all the other little fighting 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 dad still remains unsettled and in the decades of debate the fall of the end of the war some stories

of yet to be heard. the day your soldiers sailors airmen marines and coast guard are better educated. are better informed. traditional american ingenuity and if. not better i suppose but at higher up and understand what the war is all about. telling. link. to a. misunderstanding of night thinking. i think it was good. because you were the military guy when you're gurnall in basic training you're just savander portraiture school or a school like that will want to suck. it up really you know really i try to spend

my whole life having people live a better life and can basically feel that uncertain or still around. and try to trick me into a kill they try to trick me into somebody who would take another life it's just one thing in real life if you like or call friends to say i didn't or that the. president. my hand in. hand and i will be constrained to a couple more will probably. go to those almost three which cross the pacific. there wasn't much to do on a troop ships old set up on the dark of night never wraps a lot of time to get to where we are what we are going to what was right or off we go back and forth back and forth and we always are looking cool and all those old we're doing the right thing because as a result. during the vietnam war and antiwar movement emerged that altered the

course of history this movement didn't take place on college campuses but in berets and on ships it flourished in army stockades navy brigs and they did see towns and surrounded military bases. it's 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 those and hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile and by nine hundred seventy one it had in the words of one colonel confessed the entire farm services. here today few people know about the g.i. movement against the war in vietnam. one hundred really proud of what i thought i was doing their earliest days of the war planted the seeds for the movement to cause even among the first american troops in vietnam the elite green berets the problem i had 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 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 include a 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 bandaids of helping to cure a few cases of him to tie go they were bombing the hell out of the villages. i was out on patrol. and near here. and. we took a couple of prisoners i would rather they were combatants or you know. patrol was

led by americans but every vietnamese are in there and they were turned over to our and. our news the old fashioned methods of interrogation force torture that was pretty common practice. i tell you as bad as that 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 taught to be thing i've learned everything i grew up with this is just not the way to treat human beings. as a whole than for that you could have because 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 this reasons that we were given for doing it was a personal protest it was just me getting out of the service 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 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 but i'm not training at that point it was obvious that it was going to be court martialled a few days later i got the court martial nokes. howard levy spent three years in prison. along with him three g.i. as 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 daniels 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 and i just wanted to do what i knew about it. and let's 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 where the 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 that the sun will give me the 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. a lot of people would. think. yes. i would inch i don't know how many there are no how many i met was a majority of the men that i met in the service were opposed but we didn't know how to force their opinion 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 tet the enemy the north vietnamese the national liberation front arns 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 with soldiers beginning to question the war in the wake of the tet offensive thousands began going to a war were absent without leave many found the way to san francisco where series of events brought the emerging g.i. eighteen war movement onto the national stage. we joined together. and sure why might you sixty eight we took sanctuary in a church and changed our sense ministers. we essentially called the press and said to them we're not going to put it on we were 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 sack italy first great. had nothing to lose. and they had no idea what was

going to come and that's a free place. so really for a 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 the search for school presidio struck. the population for sure usually upwards it was built i think in the cold war to be sixteen and there were so sometimes double that in there. that were crowded. for the first. bush 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 war demonstration in the country organized by

g.i.'s in federal funds i was an 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 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 the leaflets on the trades system. ourselves and since i really like them one point i know we were a little concerned about it. but nothing. evidently bay landed pretty accurately that's what they testified to clarke. and on my way tracking and shipped the demonstration i decided i was going to wear my name

for. my opinion was fairly straightforward. westmorland we're far before the war. as an active duty person i certainly have the same rights that i can where my uniform protesting united states. says install this court martial by the navy for making a political statement while in uniform and following the march for a while g i's turn themselves into the presidio army starcade 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 been shot this prisoner and killed him one thousand year old private michael brutsch 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 and his only crime was so i want to be there. going to war. because he was a really young age and for no good reason not unlike a lot of his brothers and you know so. so we reacted. this really. with anger and just our age. you toured it you know we ripped the wires out of the walls we ripped the squawk box off the wall and then things started because we started playing we came to a decision there just 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 didn't know we walked over here and sat down at a certain point calmed down came out and read us the beauty act we just kept

singing louder and going to link arms i'm saying. we were scared to tell you we were really scared we have them right where we want to be finally listening to what this man has 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 they really had to set an example you know come down hard and we were the guys they decided to do that with and they did it i mean we were on trial for a life. you know i got a game it was unable you know within two days of being the stockade i was i was base and that's it. for single. nationwide support for the city and when he said.

i was wounded three times when i was in the bush and then the third time i was wounded was on the summer of one of sixty seven and we got overrun by north vietnamese regulars i started like a human wave a. new guy came up behind our own style his rifle in the hall and i saw the front sight of an a k forty seven a muzzle flash i am i am sixteen point zero but i so hold my trigger when i saw a case. and a bullet hit me in a new and i blacked out came to a few minutes later and the gun was jammed and i knew was shattered. after the fighting ended in the sun came up and they carried me over to. me and he was sitting up against a tree stump and he was. three balls up. you knew it was

a carry away and a corrosive in his arjun's that is google killed he did a good job as a news guy and he was about my age and. when i said things you know why is a good number live it was just a matter of pure luck and i started thinking oh i wonder if you had a girlfriend it was from hollywood mothers will find things like. the one you just won through the experience of that nature and you find out that it's all lies and they're just lying to the american people and your silence means that your part if you can have my goal and i couldn't stop i couldn't be so 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 shot but it was the first shot where i was shooting there are barrels a barrel with him and looked him in the face afterwards and i vote

a certain amount of responsibility to him to make that his wife to visit his does not be in vain meant that i had a trial in every case for all of the justice that he was fighting for good i believe he was fighting for his country so i became involved in the most as. with more and more soldiers turning against the war handful of peace activists opened the first of what would become a network of dozens of parents who were g.i. coffee houses located in the town that hovered in a military bases. in the dusty texas town of killeen just outside fort hood which talent over twenty thousand troops he came home with a g.i. coffeehouse known as the army or stripes. being in the army you know here right now now right. when you take your pick you know i'm in the army about a minute or an hour or something like. name only list. good 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 and it's old soldiers of me had a record player and all the latest rock records and underground favors and using up rap. and they go out on em like one read me go on an ambush and sneak good to people in. the early morning and stuff. because i got to get to know who's there. a majority of women are they doing what they're right they were very. very good and they're they're friends of. anyone who thinks he can back out of them and hopefully be a good guy than any of them he may be because he's putting. it on and on his cropped up with several army bases these days and so gone

underground g.i. press which consists largely of anti war newspapers military authorities are clamping down hard on the papers recently when there was an underground newspaper laying on the bed and called the last harass a free man they were thinking that this is not the rise material and this is a person material you're not allowed to have any copies of this inside the barracks goes turnus going to be awake that night then the paper then with one around in the barracks everybody's reading it two or three guys are time sitting around it 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 hate to be. if they had to do it they haven't got how to do something about this that was good tight mimeographed printed the g.i. underground press exploded. cost a ton traveling toward georgia last harass washington for benning georgia air force

for your bomber fort dix new jersey for the texas teen press it's published by a group of radical soldiers stationed at this army base and we used to distribute it clandestinely on base we 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 in a vacuum down his car and claim to follow the remnants of a marijuana arrested him for merrill possession of marijuana in an attempt to suppress his movement following it from day trial in a texas court to see peterson a sentenced eight years in prison for bragg north carolina police or jackson sure the times are all in the german side where 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 travel and adventure turned into

the popular g.i. expression. pressley 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 particularly the vietnamese people she stands with the chiapas and she stays with the movement she says i'm going to stand with this i'm going to give vent i'm going to help support and build it you know it's not all like that you have to be a show i think it's a terrible demonstration going on outside although it's always

a demonstration going on outside richard this one is completely out of control what they are asking for this time for yesterday the problem because prisoners out of vietnam had dropped all government official we have people who care about. your job and i would like to know not just about their story and i want our actors are going to call it a third marine you can't richard why not. four years program or maybe bob hope to tour vietnam entertaining american troops but soon the cheers turned to jeers and a new kind of entertainment emerged. howard levy can sell the celebrity within the g.i. movement he met with donald sutherland and me and he said what if we put peak after . an antiwar show that's you know the opposite side of the coin from from the bob hope show. that's

a 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. 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 for from russia germany from okinawa 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 up we don't know why our bodies are being killed we don't know why we're killing those people. the truck. will be right. over here we need your mouth. washed ashore here i feel all dead weight should be exempt from all military. right of all really like a right. wing. no no. no. no no. guys are coming to mobile we come from so you good people come in with different information about black palace trouble that mean you know black you need to feel

good about you so you want to really question which lunacy of mine. but i remember one day the first sergeant was talking about kooks and naive i was that you know you keep using racial kick i don't really understand that you know one day he was one of the groups and i remember when i would offer my he had this and for good because the same things and then. things began to start clicking in my head like you wouldn't know. nearly a billion people in the world were going to come from everything. in the united states even our trash cans or food the food you just have to go get all of these

perfectly good eggs because one was cracked didn't even get all over the other ones just threw them all the way munchies from the german oh you clearly like the upper class. from the dumpster at one am this morning three pm this afternoon on the grill the cake is made one doesn't dumpster egg whites. delicious breakfast for the family eggs and toast for about a week every year in america we throw away ninety six billion pounds of food.

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