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government to spend more on social programs instead of settlements and military. ukraine is turning up the heat on its castro would not go the money the previously agreed price is a cut by refusing to make any concessions russia maintains the current contract complies with international requirements and cannot be revised. and finally moscow's going to see the sort of rationing sunday marking its eight hundred sixty fourth birthday with an eye opening the light show which saw the moscow state university as the canvas for a multi million dollar display and the military's been taking over red square wrapping up another five day to two with russian and foreign militaries marching together. but be back with more on their stories in less than thirty minutes from now meantime we have more on how an antiwar movement that emerged during the one nine hundred sixty s. changed the course of history that's in our special report next on r.t. . 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 sure to go down or. ask yourself what's going to happen to all the other little 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 decade to debate that followed the end of the war some stories have yet to carry. the day your soldiers sailors airmen marines and coast guard are better educated. or better informed. that traditional american ingenuity and initiative. are better i suppose fast at higher up and understanding what the war is all about

. philip. zelikow. political. misunderstand my feeling. something if it's good. when i speak with the military i when you're colonel in basic training you have this crap and reports are just a school and i want to sell it. really you know really i try to spend my whole life having people with a better life and can basically feel better that's what nurses still. they try to trick me into a shell to try to turn me into somebody who would take a life if there's one thing in my life i feel i could ever call. there so i didn't bother to have a president. when i am. a model i think

you can say more profitable but. you know it took us almost three which draws observer. diversion from what you do on a troop ship so we'd sit up on the docket nightmare read a lot of time to get to where we are what we are going to what it was later all we go back and forth back and forth and we always are looking good and well that's all 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 berets and on ships it flourished in army stockades maybe briggs and it did she towns right 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 those i mean hundred twenty prism and

thousands and to accept them 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. 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 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 in german taji what 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

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 your hip. and. we took a couple of prisoners whether they were combatants or not you know. patrol was led by americans but every yen me arvin there and they were turned over to our men. are the news 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 that was really sickening and death of everything i've been talking to learn

everything i grew up with this is just not the way you treat human beings. it's all done for the good of the cause i guess. 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 reason instead we were given for doing it was a personal protest it was just me getting out of 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 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 medically unethical and i just stopped 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 do you do want here and i told him exactly what i was doing

a set of my 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 trained at that point it was obvious that it was going to be court martialed and a few days later i got to court martial nokes. 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 nine hundred sixty 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 it would let people then 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. sucks well give me that kind 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. 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 we didn't know how to force their opinion given much thought. yes. nine hundred sixty eight was the turning point but 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 the soldiers beginning to question the war in the wake of the tet offensive thousands began going a wall were absent without leave many found their way to san francisco where series of events brought the emerging g.i. empty war movement onto the national stage. we joined together. sure why not she

sixty eight we took sanctuary in a church and changed our sense of ministers. we essentially called the press and said to them we're not going to get we were refusing orders and in fact we are resigning from the military to come again and. the fact that it took three days to decide how to deal with this tactically was great. had nothing to lose. and i had no idea what was going to come and that's a free place. so really freeplay you know you're here you know what's going to happen you know where you're going but you know what you're doing. here and that was my introduction to be a surfer scopus if you're struck. the

population for sure usually upwards was going if you can call it be six feet you know there were so sometimes double that in there. were crowded. close. to the shore guards were mean there was this really 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 and veterans i was 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 g.i.'s 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 private plane loaded up with leaflets and drop the leaflets on the trades. ourselves and balance and reflect some one point i know we were a little concerned about it. but nothing evidently they landed pretty accurately gaps where they testified to my shop. and on my way trucking and shipped the demonstration i decided i was going to wear my uniform . my opinion was fairly straightforward it was more like we are his for for being for the war. as an active duty person i certainly had the same rights that he did i could wear my uniform protesting united states. says install this court martial by the navy for making

a political statement involving uniform and following the march for a while g.i.'s turn themselves into the presidio army stockade or keith mathur 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 it shot this prisoner and killed him or nineteen year old private michael veitch 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 a work detail. for the guards 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. you know.

so we reacted. this truly. with anger and disgust in our rage. you tour that part we were the wires over the walls we were the squawk box off the wall and then things started calmed down because we started playing we came to a decision there best thing we could do was to have some kind of a demonstration and it was at the roll call formation we had a signal that was we were supposed to break records and we didn't know we walked over here and sat down at a certain point commandant came out. and we just kept saying louder and to link arms i'm saying. we were scared and i'll tell you we are really scared we have them right where we want to be finally listening to watch that's the first time i could ever remember anybody listening to us while i was in the military. the commanding general of the six thirty 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 like. you know i kind of came it was unable and you know within two days of getting the stockade i was i was based in that sense. for saying we shall overcome. this nationwide support the city of police in. which. i was wounded three times when i was in the bush and then third time i was well under was on the summer of one of the sixty seven and we got overrun by north vietnamese regulars a started like a human wave

a. new guy came up behind her all installed his rifle. and i saw the front side of an a k forty seven a muzzle. and i am sixteen point off and i so hold my trigger when i saw a case. and a boy gave me a new and i blacked out and came to a few minutes later and the gun was jammed and i knew was shattered. after fighting and in the sun came up and they carried me over to. me and he was sitting up against a tree and he was dead he had three bullet holes off just. you know he has a carry laying across as well when a sergeant soldier's is google killed you did a good job as a news guy and he was above my age and. then i said i think you know why is he dead now live it was just a matter of pure luck when i started thinking oh i wonder if you had a girlfriend it was molly's mother's going to find out things like. the one you

just went 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 keeping them i go and i couldn't stop i mean i couldn't be so you know 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 a barrel with them and put them in the face afterwards and i felt a certain amount of responsibility to him to make sure his wife to visit his death not be in vain meant that i had to try in every case for all of the justness that he was fighting for who i believe he was fighting for his country so i became involved in the whole as there were. 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 were g.i. coffee houses located in the towns that hover near military bases. the dusty texas town of killeen just outside fort hood which towers over twenty thousand troops they came home with a g.i. coffee house known as the only armstrong to. be in an army you know here in town and right. i can figure i can get on any army the minute from now or something like. name only host. training from a shock absorber on a helmet so that's what the only real threat was it was a place where you go there and he sold sodas and they had a record player and all the latest rock records and underground papers and using out rap. and they go out on him like one did we go out on the ambush and sneak people in. the early morning and stuff.

because they've got to get up there. a majority of women are they doing there right they were. going to be there their friends don't let anyone or anyone to think they can back out of that and hopefully be a part in any of that he's making because he's putting. who put on his cropped up in 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 it's called the last harass a free man they were thinking that this is i thought the rise material and this is a person material there are a lot of how any cop is this inside the barracks goes turnus in

a media break that like the paper there were one around in the barracks everybody's reading at two or three guys a time sitting around on a bed around guys beds and stuff like that checking out the paper what i liked about it was the fact that the officers hated to be. if they had to be good to have a good how to do something about this that was good tight mimeographed printed the g.i. underground press exploded. could time travel adventure or jordan last harass washington fort benning georgia air force for your bomber aboard ship for the texas tea press it's published by a group of radical soldiers stationed at this army base and we used to distribute it clandestinely on base from colorado to leave bunches of them in barracks as we go through nightly month for the lockers and if you are caught distributing literature there was a court martial friends shortly after the first edition was published the g.i.

found at the fatigue press gypsy peterson was pulled over by fort hood police in a vacuum daughter's car and claimed to follow the remnants of marijuana arrested him for possession of marijuana in an attempt to suppress his movement following a two day trial in a texas court to keep peterson the sentence eight years in prison for fraud with carol rice breaks for jackson's soft short times our blog site 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 of the. press elite 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 tiaras and she stands with you i move in and she says i'm going to stand with this i'm going to get bent i'm going to help support it and build it you know it's not all like that you have to be a show i think that'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 what they are asking for this time brianna to update us from all political prisoners out of vietnam now and perhaps all government officials we have people they care about their job you do your job and i would argue i don't have to stop a story i know why howard thank you sabbatical at the third marine you can't richard i'm not prepared. for years program work

bob hope the tour de had entertained 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. let's 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 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 or from west germany from okinawa from 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 they don't know why our bodies are being killed we don't know why we're killing those people. i'd be shocked. if you will be

right here. in. washington i feel all badly should be exempt from all military. all really good life where she's right where you know. chris i'm not being. rude. i'm not the. guys who come to mobile with a country so you couldn't people come in with different information about black palace drug let that you know black unity and you'll feel real good about you so you want to really question the community movement. but i remember one day the first sergeant was talking about kooks so yeah naive i was i was a racist i didn't really understand it you know one day he was talking about groups

and i remember a light and went over my head this is where the same things and then. things began to start clicking in my head like you couldn't do no. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images from world has been seeing from the streets of canada after. china's cooperation to rule today. wealthy british style sign. on.

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