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social justice. looks at how well. that emerged during the one nine hundred sixty s. change the course of history the second part of that special report next. oh sure vietnam you know when you met a black soldier you know he had a gap you had a special k. a shake 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 but that for handshake he definitely could tell if he was the new cover because everybody knew everybody had their little new one. you know the problem oh my god i'm gay i don't know or they just checked back. this. week you know we got to come. back. to slap this already this where that first just that high and then the down this way like

a sony always does believe you know like a break from dodge around right. there you go that's it better to me the guts oh it's just going to bases big big big big hit they've been going to jail for down the power would never have said this is what leads other things are going to leave the game and going to jail the dog just like don't. longman jail because it's just odd teeth in the well being that was pretty much just like jails in america playing them said black there was a lot of pounds and in this prison a lot of stuff the only people with angry pretty dire situation. a group of the inmates got together and we decided that we were going to pick skeet from this place. but happened was is that the result was alone. and leave a lot of. cost to go. to be burnt down to jail and

he was just made. by the people got killed. i'm surprised since. i was going to survive the man would get ready to come to the deceased and who would. you know when you're laying on your back that you can't move for doing you can do you know that you have a lot of time to think soon and think about what you did you know what you don't think that you're going to people that you cue people that are. i mean there's always something that reminds you. that you can be here and i think that you see them on your crew thema i saw what was going on in all the states. due to running down the streets and we were in the same

prairie uniform that i got to remember that. they've given up on people. that we're over here beating up on people over here and at the same time you guys. were in the same identical uniform of the number here and you know pronto. black people and dogs are running to take several in the street. in the summer of one nine hundred sixty eight army national guard troops were sent into american cities as thousands of black people rioted following the assassination of martin luther king . that spring troops reduced 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

a vietnamese not i want to fight the americans. the night before the truth was supposed to leave there was a meeting of black eyes 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 you know nearly like a rap session or a rally why they were opposed to going to chicago we're making it clear that it was a genocidal thing 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. on the straight feel and brothers came up and really started poor they don't need about you know discrimination and unfair treatment and 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 and say 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 we just really. chris.

said here. you know you know what the hell go i know impedes all around me but you know what when are you going to be taken in peacetime you know they came at us with this i guess you know keep great you would have been. and in the area renowned openness formation and comfort him please come in and grip i brought it and take him back in the back of the shooter here screaming in the back rooms. and they were court martialed brought up on various court martial charges played scared the hell out of the military then they want to round and run through the roster of all the units who are supposed to go and considered to be quotes of verses so a number of people myself included will not send. one of the most infamous and the

nine hundred sixty cargo police brutally attacked demonstrators in front of the democratic convention although the army it's an extension of right control troops to chicago from fort hood to keep 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 assent and we see this commotion has started to being in the line and then start come up towards us and we could see people like one i would turn to the guy behind them and they there be this excited conversation and 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's killing women and children the vietcong and he said no we are. mark

sixteen thousand nine hundred sixty eight the soldiers of charlie company eleventh brigade america division entered the village of me life twenty four hours later over five hundred villagers men women children lay dead brutally and wantonly murdered in cold blood around the world to me live massacre would become the touchstone event of the vietnam war. for over a year the american military covered up the 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 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 talk 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 average behavior you were just coming home say not 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 supporting freedom and liberation and democracy throughout the world and the resistor of the slaughter this terrible and

slaughter so i think the question was why are they going after cali we're calley was doing precisely what we were all told to do we were in vietnam essentially ok which is killed all and sorted out later. inclined restudy and a friend who is it was an advisor with norman group and one time he asked me would i like to accompany you into a village there was more you will 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 with about she was questioned by six arms in the way they questioned her with and she advantages if they shot her she was about twenty times better she was questioned. and court date. this guy came over who was in knowing him he was a former major within the services when he hears me he got hungry again and came back over working with us the id eight international development and.

he went over there and rip their clothes off into the night and. cut from arena all the way up well just about up to a breath in order organ down completely out of or cavity going out and then he stopped and not over and commenced to peel every bit as can offer a body and left her there and find her something or other and i went and listened to 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 in there in dow chemical and we can figure it in the napalm because the napalm wasn't sticking to that the it me skin enough. and that was you know all of this just added to the overwhelming sense of the criminality of states.

this was armed forces day and in many cities across the country there were the usual parades displays and vans with a recent surge of protest over the war in indochina cast a shadow over today's activities this was even some military bases where the presence of anti-war demonstrators led to the cancellation of planned observances four thousand g.i.'s march the first year but also at the base they told people off limits and told people that if you want to get arrested for stores downtown were putting up plywood coverings on their windows because the cops told it was going to turn into a riot but then people decided to change it. because you know we thought making fun of your enemy was. the second year nine hundred seventy one. three four.

very conceivable indicate our army that now remains in vietnam is in a state approaching collapse but individual units avoiding or having refused combat murdering their officers and noncommissioned officers. and dispirited were not. by the pentagon's own figures during the ten years of the vietnam war five hundred thousand soldiers to start. in the face of its term indebtedness and the president it is a war movement and the military here. collapse the nixon administration announced the policy of v.n. in the sation an effort to shift the burden of combat to the south vietnamese army

while american chad spun part of north vietnam from the sky. nixon promised that american ground troops are no longer be involved in offensive content. this is richard boyle hired a space ship monitors from the cambodian border sitting in a bunker but it doesn't run the first chapter which a lot of people kind of wonder if anybody in the world knows we're out here. like. two batteries or a tourist was to be in on groceries with nobody we don't even exist. he just made americans troops were not supposed to be in combat that's why the american army could nine hundred that they were there you know that far as america was before this i got the word american troops on the border isn't going. to be playing at the office and actually i tell you old thing why no you all like to go back home the

north vietnamese were happier two regiments to crack regiments stoli surrounding the fireplace points nothing and no. batteries we start going out here we'll be sitting ducks you know the best thing to. think he's. a choice to hire hired man after the water they just sent us out to the captain for odin ordered six men to go out on a night ambush what was basically a suicide mission because he sent six guys out against two regiments and they said we're going to do it we're 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 in firebase pace we are faced daily with the decision of whether to take a court martial or participate in offensive ground in the event of mass prosecution . very unit our only hope would be.

excellent so afraid but very ordered that company called out they sent in another company they'd heard about the refusal of alpha company the other company also refuse to fight and after that no company notes troops will fight i said look we're not fighting for. two 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 neurology eyes you know they're going on but not soon enough it has produced plenty group insubordination shooting of officers by the wrong man and a deadly practice called bragging to a purpose in my mind was he to get me or intimidate me myself and all others in authority in the company in the kind of sergeant gene tamely is 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 spreading and many g.i.'s talk openly about fragging and the military countermeasures seen more than one big group meeting where. actually all they talk about is fragging 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 garage in vietnam dropping more tonnage of firearms on that tiny country never used by all sides during world war two and with the assault coming mainly for america. 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 carriers constellation and kitty hawk spawn a movement led by a group of navy officers and enlisted men who truly believed what would stop that war was one soldier stop fighting i'm still an active officer as were all these other guys and sailors and enlisted people as we sat around and brainstormed about what kind of a nonviolent action can we take that can actually touch. the parameters are the. biggest ship in san diego harbor it's the most impressive. it's hard for people to realize this but that ship is not a naval ship it's really part of their farm and we use attack as a it's a it's a weapon of a boeing weapon of aggression. the

original concept came 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 he 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 have to see how many ballots we can collect and we're going to point toward a day. to day they all make a case in a way that they will get a living. heck i 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. creedence of course because i knew a lot about how the military functions. and i.

think i confronted a. valid question why do you people look so weird like it would appear. you just look normal everybody else. 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 get for it and they want to end the war nations. there is nobody from the captain of that ship to the mayor of the cities we did not hold a press conference about this project everybody was commenting on us senators were commenting on it you know even if the city folks too for that ship to stay were still going about it just love christmas but there were the ships as well i know

there's a lot of people on the ship who don't want to go but military is full of malcontents businesses. 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 nine hundred seventy one that produced thousands of pages of testimony illustrating how broadly in defeat that movement had spread that same year the f.c.a. show tour days 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 silent about crossties an injustice being perpetrated by the united states military and peoples of other nations nor the petty harassment the servicemen and women are made to wonder day after day we demand. policies against persons because of their race. we can walk for me to get her doctors anti war g.i. because they do not agree with us with the. media and code robo air and ground troops in cia vietnam as well as in korea wound open our japan the philippines israel cambodia thailand germany england panama. i mean it seems unthinkable now that we could have done this 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 refuse to can. use it no man will lose you know. what he's hiding folders to be. i used to love to watch the faces of the g.i.'s when she sang it was like this shell attention would drop away and you would see the youth and the innocence and the vulnerability underneath the song. stand strong. what. is true. this is for.

this day for the one nine hundred seventy one just five years after how it's 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 on to the capitol steps. we had to fight to 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 voyageurs protest in a war that the buddha or minds we're a thousand years in nineteen seventy they thought they did know how to react to that because they thought there were a bunch of them they got out there and probably all just thought it was coming apart or i really learned so much just spent

a day after day after day you know just people talking to. you know what's all about how we're going to deal with the stuff and how we really look forward change the world that's really want to do for it wouldn't change the world we're pretty sure this search you know we're pretty sure those deserve to be here and so that would leave much room would change world you know people so we keep going i went back you cannot 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 hocks 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 but the that there really was continue think about this ship and say. gak ok our. dad. died extra. push me into this shit. what's the what's the pride in saying you're

a veteran if you are what you're better in something. like that i'm. being. a veteran of the massacre of someplace or another you know. what i'm doing on crime. so don't talk about. those mazing to me there's many many g.i.'s who were actually in vietnam actually there. then spoke out against it and demonstrated pictures and pictures of me. there through it. and that if there had been a hundred i would have been mean that there was thousands there's just. incredible. brave people.

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