and how it changed the course of history. in the early one nine hundred sixty s. the united states government began sending combat troops to south vietnam. was made sure to go down or. ask yourself what's going to happen all the. americas 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 have yet to be heard. today your soldiers sailors airmen marines the coast guard are better educated people are better informed. than the traditional american ingenuity and if.

not better as a post passed at my morale and understanding what the war is all about. killing. the ceiling. limit. the misunderstanding and it might be. different to the good. what i did with the military i went near gurnall in basic training this crap and reported it to school and school and i want to. really get over it i try to spend my whole life having people live a better life and basically feel better that's what nurses do. they tried to turn me into a killer they tried to trick me into somebody who would take a life it's just one thing in real life i feel like i've accomplished this so i

didn't know that. the president. from my hand. in my will. you could say that there were probably. like. you know to those almost three in which server. would go on a troop ship sold sort of. a lot of time to get to where we are what we're doing. and we go back and forth back and forth. we always are looking for. doing the right thing because. 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 berets and on ships that flourished in army stockades navy brigs in the dingy towns and surrounded military bases. it 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 seven hundred twenty prism and thousands into exile and by nine hundred seventy one it had in the words of one colonel infest the entire armed services. 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 had was realizing that 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 in dermatology well 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 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 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 hip. and. we took a couple of prisoners and whether they were combatants or not you know. patrol was led by americans but every vietnamese arvin there and they were turned over to our and. our the news the old fashioned methods of interrogation force torture that was pretty common practice. i tell you as bad as the bat is that treatment was

the cynicism that attached to it was the part that was really sickening i thought and that's about everything i've been taught to be thing i've learned everything i grew up with this is just not the way you treat human beings. there's a long time for that you could have a cause think yes. i got out of the military in nine hundred sixty six i got out because of 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 that 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're doing i think it's immoral i think it's 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 and i said i'm perfectly aware of the consequences that i'm not training at that point it was obvious that it 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 through fort hood who refused orders to vietnam and received five years hard labor and a dishonorable discharge army lieutenant henry how. the demonstration reading. fascist aggression in vietnam was sentenced to two years and two marines. 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. was the featured speaker meeting at the town

hall in manhattan. and 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 v. sign 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. oh i. think. i wouldn't i

don't know how many but i know how many i met him was a majority of the men that i met in the service were opposed but really didn't know how to force their opinion. 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 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 to a wall 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. in my two sixty year we took sanctuary in a church and change ourselves for ministers. we essentially called the press and said to them we're not going to get on were refusing orders and in fact we were resigning from the military to come and get it . the fact that it took them three days to decide how to deal with this to play great. had nothing to lose. and they had no idea what was going to come and that's a free place it's a really free place you know you you know what's going to happen you know where you're going but you know what you're doing. and that was my introduction to the servants the scope presidio start.

the population usually upwards i think in kabul like to be sixty and there were some sometimes double that in there. were crowded. for the. guards for me it was because of the fun. with the nine for peace held in military prisons soldiers throughout the bay area began planning for the first war demonstration in the country organized by g.i.'s in 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 leaflets and drop the leaflets it's. like. we were a little concerned. but nothing. pretty accurately that's what they testified to. and on my way into the demonstration i decided i was going to wear. my opinion. that we are his uniform. in congress as an active duty person i certainly have the same rights that he did and i can wear my uniform protesting united states. sees

in court martial by the navy for making a political statement while in uniform and following the march for a turn themselves into the presidio army stockade was being held so had been assigned kind of by the movement people to go into the stockade to find out what was going on because they had been they had shot this prisoner and killed him nineteen year old private michael bunch life in the army had been a little more than a series of a wall violations his last stop was here the presidio stockade where he was fatally shot last friday while trying to escape from a work detail. for the guards shot even killed him point blank. they're. going to walk. gauge. for no good reason not unlike a lot of his brothers. so

. you reacted. this really. with anger and disgust and our bridge. here toward the jail we the wires the walls we squat box off the wall and then things start 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 what was supposed to break ranks and we did know we walked over here and sat down at a certain point came out and read as. we just kept saying in louder and kind of linked arms and saying we were scared and i'll tell you we were 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 and 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 life. you know i got a game it was unable and you know within two days of being the stockade i was i was facing that's. for singing we shall overcome. nationwide to the city and when he said. i was wounded three times while i was in the bush and then third time i was wounded was on the december twenty sixth. and we got overrun by north vietnamese regulars

a sort of like a human wave of. the. all. right . and. me and he was. good.

natured and you find. people and your silence means. i couldn't be so. but it was. the words. he was fighting for. as. with more and more soldiers turning against the war. in the first of what would

become a network of dozens of thing. war g.i. coffee houses located in the towns that hover near military bases. and the dusty texas town of killeen just outside fort hood which talented over twenty thousand troops became homeless the g.i. coffeehouse known as the army all stripes. being in the army and over here and then out on a right. i can take here and i can get on any army the minute the artist of my. name only i was struck came from a shock absorber on a helmet so that's what the only goes through 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 papers and using out right. and to go out on ambush like one period to go

out on the ambush and sneak over to people in. the early morning and stuff. because they've got to get there right you know who's there. a majority of women and you know what they doing there granted they were here and. they're going to be there they're friends so that anyone or anyone thinks they can back out of them and hopefully be a part of the night and any of that he's making because of the supporting the war. he will put on one of his cropped up at several army bases these days the so-called 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 it's called the last harass they feel free and they were freaking out this is authorized by terrio and this is a person material here not

a lot of have any copies of this inside the barracks go. the paper. read. this paper it was the fact that the officers hated. if they had to be something that was. typed mimeographed printed. underground press exploded. fort benning georgia. fort hood texas. station the face and we used to distribute it.

shortly after the first issue was published the g.i. who founded the press peterson was pulled over by fort hood police. today trial in a texas court peterson was sentenced to eight years in prison for. crimes . by the military. the underground press became the life blood of the g.i. movement as the army's own recruiting slogan travellin adventure turned into the popular g.i. expression of the. presley 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 two yards and she stands with the g.i. movement and she says i'm going to stand with this i'm going to give vent i'm going to help support it and build it you know settle it that you have to be a show mr president that's a terrible demonstration going on outside all there's always a demonstration going on outside but richard this one is completely out of control i want to ask you point this time brianna davis and all political prisoners out of vietnam now and draft all government officials people if they care about the job you do your job and i'll do my job without you don't understand the storming the why how i got a call at the third marine you can't richard why not the third marine.

corps years program or maybe bob hope toured be 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. they took one 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. the 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 there's 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 that were being killed we don't

know why we're killing those people. i'm sorry if you will be. me. who watches you know. all day. military do. all really good life where she's right where you being on. i'm not being president. i'm not the. guys who come from all over the country so you good people come in with different information about black palace trouble that mean you know black unity you don't feel real good about your so you want to really question which will be a lot. but i remember one day the first saw james talking about kooks naive i was that he was rich and. i didn't really

understand that you know one day he was talking about groups and i remember like where the family of this of. the same thing is and then. things began to start clicking in my head like what. he says nature and discover it's. leap. communicate with the wild. and become free. and. see what nature can give you. the worldwide manhunt for him lasted for fifteen year. and one million year old

warrant was promised for his camp. any any political mass murder for the west. the national hero for many members of congress. general of the serbian army. problem luggage here are criminals. on our team.

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