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backtracking on the two thousand and nine deal that ended a european gas crisis the president may get up says he has proposals are not concrete and the current deal cannot be revised unilaterally. and now it's time for our special report on the anti-war movement in the u.s. that emerged during the vietnam conflict and how it changed the course of history that's next right here on our team. in the early one nine hundred sixty s. the united states government began sending combat troops to south vietnam if that's all it was made from go down or gray or. ask yourself what's going to happen to all the other little tyke 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 unsettled. and in the decades of debate that followed the end of the war some stories and yet

to carry. the day your soldiers sailors airmen marines and coast guard are better educated. are better informed. better traditional american ingenuity and if they. are better i suppose fast at higher up and understand what the war is all about. long. lists. lists. lists. you misunderstand it like beginning. to think that it was good. what i did with the news here are we mere colonel in basic training this five hundred portraiture school or a school at night wants. to really get over it i try to spend my whole

life having people with a better life and basically feel better since when are 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 my life i feel i could ever call friends to say i didn't or the chemical the president. and i am. kind of model i think you could say a good couple for the most profitable but. you know it's all those almost ring which draws observer. there wasn't too much to do on a troop ships old showed up on the dark of night never read a lot of time to get to where we are what we're drawn to whether it was right or off we go back and forth back and forth and we always are looking for an old soul we're doing the right thing because as the world all. during the vietnam war an

antiwar movement emerged that altered the course of history this movement didn't take place on college campuses but in parents and on ships it's worse than army stockades maybe grades and a dingy town surrounded 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 same eight hundred twenty prison and thousands into exile and by nine hundred seventy one it had in the words of one colonel confessed the entire armed 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 cause even among the first american troops in vietnam he'll eat 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 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 intertie go they were bombing the hell out of the villages. i was out on patrol. near hipwell and. we took a couple of prisoners and whether they were combatants or not you know. their

patrol was led by the americans but every vietnamese are in there and they were turned over to our. right and use the old fashioned methods of 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 everything i've learned everything i grew up with this is just not the way he treats human beings. and there's all kind for that you could have because like you . i got out of the military in ninety sixty six i got out because of things i saw the things i was doing and this reasons 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 repulsive 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 don't think it's immoral i think it medically unethical and i just stopped the lot 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 myself and perfectly aware of the consequences that i'm not training at that point it was obvious that it was going to be court martial a few days later i got the court martial notice. 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 one thousand nine hundred eighty 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 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 with a cautious 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 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 the. only people would. think. i would inch i really don't know how many but i know how many i met was a majority of the men that i met in the service were opposed but they didn't know how to force their opinions given much thought. yes. one 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 tad the enemy the north vietnamese the national liberation front our names 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 thought the way to san francisco where series of events brought the emerging g.i. antiwar movement onto the national stage. we joined together. in july matches sixty eight weeks of sanctuary in a church and change our sense ministers. we essentially called the press and said. we're not going to get it were refusing orders and in fact we're resigning from the military come again. effective treatment three days to decide how to deal this saturday was great. had nothing to lose. and i had no idea what was going to come and that's

a free place to really free play you know you're you know what's going to happen you know where you're going but you know what you're doing. it. yeah and that was my introduction to be a certain scope presidio stockade. population for sure usually upwards it was good i think in the cold war if you succeed then there were so sometimes double that in there. that were crowded. for which. it was sure guards were mean it was easy 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. some 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 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. we can hire a small private plane loaded up with three bullets and drop the leaflets on the trades system. palaces and balance and reflect on one point you know we were a little concerned about it. but nothing. evidently they landed pretty accurately for the test. and on my way. trying to get demonstration i decided i was going to wear my name for.

my opinion was fairly straightforward it was it was more like we are his uniform for the war. as an active duty person i certainly had the same rights that he did and i could wear my uniform protesting the 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 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 they had shot this prisoner and killed him one thousand year old private michael brutsch life in the army had been 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 government if you're. going to war. because he was cut down a really young age and for no good reason not unlike a lot of his brothers. you know so. so we reacted. viscerally. with anger and disgust in our marriage. he toured a park we ripped the wires out of the walls we ripped the squawk box off the wall and then things started calmed down because we started playing we came to a decision there justin 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 walk over here and sat down at a certain points. com came out and read as. we just kept saying louder and kind of

linked arms and sing saying we were scared and i'll tell you we were really scared we have them right where we want to finally listening to us that's the first time i could care to 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 a life. you know i kind of came it was unable and you know within two days of business stockade i was i was based in that sense. for saying we should lower the. nationwide to the presidio when he said.

i was wounded three times while i was in the bush and then third time i was alone he was on the summer of one hundred sixty seven and we got overrun by north vietnamese regulars they started like a human wave. the guy came up to start his rifle in the hall and i saw the front sight of an a k forty seven a muzzle flash i am sixteen point zero but i. hold my trigger when i saw a case. and a bullet hit me in a new and i. came to a few minutes later and the gun was jammed in my new was shattered. after the fighting ended in the sun came up and they carried me over to this guy which. me i mean he was sitting up against

a tree stump and he was dead he had three bullet holes up his shows you knew it was a tree lay in the crows it was blood in his ardent supporters as google killed you just good job i was a news guy and he was about my age and. i said things you know but as he did not live it was just a matter of pure luck and i started a certain creams but i wonder if you had a girlfriend and it was always 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 you're part of the you can have my goal and 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 you know the barrel with him and looked him in the face afterwards

and i vote a certain amount of responsibility to him to make it his wife to visit his death not be in vain meant i had to try in every shade for all of the justness 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 open the first of what would become a network of dozens of patients who are g.i. coffee houses located in the towns that hover near military bases. the dusty texas town of killeen just outside fort hood which talented over twenty thousand troops they came home with a g.i. coffee house known as the army officer for not. being in the army you know over here right now now right now. ready to take your. you know how many are being met in our. name only i was struck came

from a shock absorber out of college 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 favors and losing out rep. and they go right on and which one did we go out on the ambush and sneak good to people in. the early morning and stuff. because they got to get up there. i'm interested women over there doing their grammar it was very. good they're there for him something that anyone thinks he can back out of it and hopefully being there in the end he's making something and i'm pretty sure.

he will put on an honest propped up with several army bases these days and still gone underground g.i. press which consists largely of anti war newspapers military authorities are clamping down hard on the papers recently there was an underground newspaper laying on the bed and called the last harass a free man they were freaking out this is i thought the rise material and this is a person material you're not allowed to have any copies of this inside the barracks goes turn us into media make that like that in the paper then with one around in the barracks everybody's reading it 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 me. everything had to be good to happen to have to do something about this that was put tight mimeographed printed the g.i. underground press exploded. traveling forward in georgia last harass washington fort benning georgia air force for your bomber. the fort hood texas

press is published by a group of radical soldiers stationed at this army face and we used to distribute it clandestinely on breaks from. bunches of them and their axes would go through nightly months. if you were caught distributing literature there was a court martial friends shortly after the first issue was published the g.i. founded the press gypsy peterson was pulled over by fort hood police and a very. inflamed the fall remnants of marijuana arrested him for possession of marijuana in attempt to suppress his movie following a true gay trial in a texas court gypsy peterson was sentenced to eight years in prison for bragg north carolina police were jackson's times all blogger jury could cite 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 in. 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 that good war is 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 who believe the vietnamese people she stands with the chiapas and she stands with your movement she says i'm going to stand with this i'm going to give them to i'm going to help support it 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 but richard this one is completely out of control one day asking for this time for a actually gave us an awful lot of prisoners out of vietnam and perhaps all government officials we have people to care about. your job and i'll do my job without you know not just now just coming up why how i can somebody call out a third marine you can't richard why not. four years program or comedian bob hope toured 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 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 if 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 where if you will be right now well. we need. to wash and she really feel all the way should be exempt from all military. it's. all really good right where you're seeing. i'm not being present. i'm not the. guys who come from all over the country so you get people coming in

with different information about black power struggle it that i mean you know black unity you will feel real good about you so you want to really question which is going to be a lot. but i remember one day the first saw james talking about kooks so you know naive i was that you know we keep using which . i don't really understand that you know one day he was talking about groups and i remember like a little family hey that's of a good cause to say things and then. things began to start clicking in my head like when i don't know. the worldwide manhunt for him lasted for fifteen years. i one million euro award was promised for his camp. the analytical mass murderer for the west. the

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