whole tour 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 deaf or handshake deaf and they could tell if he was the new company because everybody knew everybody had their little new one. of them 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 down this way like a sony always do as well if you like a break from don you're out right. there you go that's it better to me the blood oh i spilled it bases big a big big big hit they've been going to jail for the power would be just what we

think when we delay but even going to jail the dog just don't. belong in jail was it just deed in the moment be 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 to. move good excuse from this place. but happened was is that the result was a lone be. caustic gauzy in that it did break down the jail and it was just made by the people good killers i'm surviving so. i was going to survive them out what good did you come to 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 and think sue and think about what you did you know what you've done and things that you've gone through the people that you queue people that have made i mean there's always something that reminds you. that you can be here and i think that you see then. you have seen what i saw what was going on in the states. do to ryan down the streets and i'm wearing the same county uniform that i got. there in memphis where. they've beaten up on people oh wait a minute we we're over here beating up on people over here and at the same time

you guys were in the same identical uniforms that i'm going to have and you're beating up on. black people dong the runner neuwirth 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. really why they were opposed to going to chicago

where making it clear that it was a genocidal thing that is going to go on and how can i go and commit genocide on my people shoot my people and one hundred black g.s. and the straight feel brothers came up and really started to point it 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 sent cracked said that he cracked me a sad to hear. you know you know what they had to go and o m p's all around it's me 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 the area every now and then you open this formation up and grouper in peace come in and grab a brother and take him back in the back and beat the shit outta here screaming in the bed you know you. see. 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 were supposed to go and took off who they considered 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 riot control troops to chicago from fort hood that kept them on the

street. is 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 a sudden 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 in front of me got the news and he turns around and he says to me they're killing women and children in vietnam i said who is killing women and children the vietcong and he said no we are. march sixteenth one nine hundred sixty eight the soldiers of charlie company eleventh brigade america division entered the village and me like 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 and 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 in 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 turtle in ames slaughter so i think the question was. why are they going after cali where cali 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. city

i had a friend who was he was an advisor with norman group and one time he asked me would i like to accompany you into a village i was milieu with and 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 in the way they questioned her with and she advantages they say they shot her she was in about twenty times that she was questioned. because dead. this guy came over who was knowing him he was a former major he was in the service was twenty years nic you've got hungry again and came back over working with us they id eight international development and. he went over there and rip their clothes off into the night and. got from a bridge on all the way up well just about up to her breast and pulled her organ down completely out of a cavity. and then he stopped and not over and commenced to peel every bit as can

offer a body and left her there as a sign for something or other and i went and listened to the 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 towards the vietnamese people on every level. you know whether was agent orange and in dow chemical we can figure it napalm because the napalm wasn't sticking to that the enemy skin enough i mean that was you know all of this just added to the overwhelming sense of the criminality of the united states. this was armed forces day and in many cities across the country there were the usual parades displays and with the recent surge of protest over the role in

indochina cast a shadow over today's activities. at some military bases where the presence of anti-war demonstrators. were putting up plywood or windows because the cops told it was going to. but then people change it. because you know we thought making fun of me was. the second year nine hundred seventy one. three.

our army. is in a state approaching collapse but the individual units of having refused combat murdering their officers and noncommissioned officers. were not. 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 of vietnamization. to shift the burden of the south vietnamese. north vietnam. 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 kept 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 poster the grocery nobody we don't even exist. we just made americans 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 along the border. between fighting for democracy. why no or. why 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 truth is we start going out there will be sitting ducks you know the best thing of order. to try to hire

a hired man they don't have to go on thursday just send us out to the captain crowed in order to 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 patron of transfer grew up in the event of mass prosecution of our unit i only hope would be public i mean. nixon was so afraid ordered that company pulled out they sent in. another company they had heard about the refusal of alpha company the other company also refused to fight and after that no company notes 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 the wrong man and a definite practice called fragging the purpose mine was he did to get me. intimidated myself and all others in authority in the company in the time sergeant 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 talked 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. 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. areas 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 and still an active officer as were all these other guys and sailors an 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 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 and it's really part of airpower and we used to attack as a kid so 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 now this election should be held every shopping

center in san diego county and every safeway store ought to have a little polling booth outside and we had to see how many ballots we can collect and we're going to point toward a day. to day. in a day all day believing. that god 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 of whole lot of that how the military functioned. then. as i got through the day. well the question is why do you people look so weird like. you 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 it u.s. senators were commenting on it you know even if the city folds to for that ship to stay we're still going without thinking just like 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 visit 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 simon about the atrocities in a job. this being perpetrated by the united states military and peoples of other nations and other petty harassment of servicemen and women i made two hundred day after day with the man for all the filming policy is against firstly because there

are a jesuit demanded logic from a nation against first anti-war g.i. because they do not agree with us policies. need to measure media and go through all of our air and ground troops in c.i.s. vietnam as well as in korea open our japan the philippines israel cambodia thailand germany england panama. need it seems i'm sick of bills now that we could have done there. and that you could have a hall full of guys with their fists in the air so 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 attention would drop away and you would see the youth and the innocence and the vulnerability underneath stone to. stand strong and closets. what do you. do is true. this is true. and there's still 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 onto 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 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 boy trust in a war that good good good or minds we had a thousand years in nineteen so they thought they did know i reacted it because they thought there were a bunch of them a good out there and. we all just thought it was i'm going to go barter i really learned so much so just spend a day after day after do 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 course would change the world we're pretty sure this sucks you know we're pretty sure those deserve to be here and so that didn't leave much room but to change the world you know people so we

keep going are you going to have 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. it i exit next checked. government pushed me into. what's the what's the pride in saying you're a veteran if you're what you're veteran or 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 i just. mean. that there was. that if there had been one hundred i would have been made that there was thousands missis. incredibly. brave people. would. just. use this.

one thing. that would. contemplate a body. so i took out the forms to track them. that this and it. might be and as most parts of. this new guy because he didn't get up by. the way they would be that god is. not going to come up with the thieves so that we threaten me like it was. something that now so.

anger on the streets of israel hundreds of thousands demand social equality and reform in the biggest anti-government rally in the country's history. russia condemns the use a new round of sanctions against syria saying that they will be useless in ending

unrest in the country. ukraine pushes for discounted gas supplies from russia backtracking on the two thousand and nine deal that ended the european gas crisis. and you are watching our team live from moscow glad to have you with us hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in cities across israel it is reported to be the largest anti-government rally in the history of the jewish state the protesters are angered by the high cost of living and the government's handling of social issues artie's policy here is following the latest developments in tel aviv tonight is the climax of many two months of social protest here in israel the launches that this country has ever seen now full weeks old innocent have been dropping tonight the million man march they were we need hoping.