for the twenty four hours a day this is r t top stories now that russia is rallying the un security council members to demand an end to the violence in syria and prevent the uprising descending into another libyan scenario parties investigating who is really behind the bloodshed and how much is hype. libyan rebels are poised to cross the last pockets of resistance from colonel gadhafi supporters with time running out for the loyalists to lay down arms. israelis are states that because they're anti-government protest against their dwindling living standards over three hundred thousand people gathered nationwide to get the government to spend more on social

programs instead of settlements and the military. moscow has been a scene of celebration this sunday marking its eight hundred sixty fourth birthday with an eye opening light show still moscow state university is the canvas for a multi-million dollar display by the military's be taking of a red square wrapping up another five day to two with russian and foreign forces not seen together. but that's it for me today macaulay thomas will be here in us and half an hour from now in the meantime it's our special report on the antiwar movement in the u.s. that emerged during the vietnam conflict and how it changed the course of history that special report next free on our take. oh to a vietnam of you know when you met a black soldier you know he had it debbie had a special handshake you could even he got to the point where you could even tell what part of the country he was from because everybody had their distinctive but that handshake he definitely could tell if he was in your company because everybody

knew everybody had their little knew what to. do you know the problem oh my god i'm the amount i don't know or they just checked back. this. week you know we got to come. by. the snappiest ready to swear first just for the high and then the down this way like a sony always do this would you like a break from don you're around right. there you go sit back and let me call the blood's oh my specialty base was big big big big hit they've been going to jail for down the power would have said this is what we think we're going to deliver him and going to jail the doors just went on. long been jailed with just the well being was pretty much just like jails in america playing them said black there was a lot of bouncing in this prison

a lot of stuff going on people would and we were pretty dire situation. being mates got together and we decided that we were going to fix keep from this place. that happened was is that the result was alone. and leave a lot of. cost to go. down to jail and then we just made about a computer a killer i'm surviving some. business about the net and what. how did you come to the decision to do so. you know when you're laying on your back and you can't move from being in there you know you have a lot of time and think soon think about what you did you know which. thing that you've done to people that you cue people.

i mean there's always something that. energy plan and things that you see. them on your personal what i saw what was going over them all the states. to run down the streets and work on were in the same county uniform i have to remember. they did not call people. whether it we'll be here people or call people or we're in the same camp you guys. were in the same identical uniform pair and you believe now gone. black people who are running pegs are on the streets. 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 springs troops were used against and were 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 now they want us to fight the americans. the night before the troops is was to leave there was a meeting of lead 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 you know nearly like a rap session or rally why they were opposed to going to chicago we were making it clear that it was a gentle south amy is going to go on and how can i go and commit genocide on my people shoot my people there were hundreds of like g.s. atmosphere a feel brothers came up and really started pointing only about you know discrimination

unfair treatment not getting the right in need it and 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 when to sleep. crack. crack me i said here. you know you know what here go i know him please all around it's me and you know what are you going to be taking in pieces of us you know became adults with us i guess you know you would have been. and in the area renown did you open this formation up and over in peace come in and grab a brother and take him back in the back and the shooter here screaming in the back . and they were court martialed brought up on

various court martial charges but it scared the hell i had military then they want to round and went through a 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 something. one of the most infamous is that the nine hundred sixty chicago police will be attacked demonstrators in front of the democratic. although the army it's an extension of riot control troops to chicago from fort hood they kept them on the street. is no longer certain which side the g.i. . the military had a problem on the same and it was about to go from bad to worse. we were in. the breakfast line i believe it was a long line of a sudden we see this commotion kind of started getting in the line and then start

to come up towards us and we could see people like when i returned 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 make up and he is and he turns around and he says to me they're killing women and children in vietnam and i said who's killing women and children to vietnam and he said no we are. march sixteenth one nine hundred sixty eight the soldiers of charlie company eleventh brigade america the vision and to the village of me like twenty four hours later over five hundred villagers men women and children lay dead brutally in watching me 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 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 the fence 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 walk away from the truth you can't lie and put up a smokescreen and say oh this is a the words they used back on an isolated instance of average behavior you were 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 that 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 terrible and aim slaughter so i think the question was why are they going after kally 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. behind the city i had a friend who was it was an invite with norman group and one time he asked me would i like to accompany you into a village there was milieu with you 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

garments in the way they questioned her with and she advantages aish the shouters means that about twenty times that she was questioned. and put dead. this guy came over who was you knowing him he was a former major within the services twenty years maybe he got hungry again and came back over working with us the id eight international development and. he went over there and ripped a clothes off into the night and. cut from a resign all the way up well just about up to her breast and ordering doubt completely out of a cavity and going out and then he stopped and not over and commenced to peel everybody's going off her body and left her there as it's time for 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 the napalm because the napalm wasn't sticking to the vietnamese skin enough. and that was you know all of this just added to the overwhelming sense of the criminality the united states. this is armed forces day and in many cities across the country there were the usual parades displays and bands with a recent surge of protest over the war in indochina cast a shadow over today's activities this was even though at some military bases where the presence of anti-war demonstrators led to the cancellation of and observances one thousand g.i.'s marched the first year but also the base and they told people the limits and they told people that if you want to get arrested or store downtown

were putting up plywood coverings on your windows because the cops told it was going to turn into a riot but then people decided to change a tire farces because you know we thought of making fun of your enemy was. the second year nine hundred seventy one. three four. where we can see the room to keep our army now remains in vietnam is in a state approaching collapse but the individual units of boarding are 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 the term a day and i'm president today to war movement and the military here. collapsed the nixon administration announced the policy of vietnamization and effort to shift the burden of combat to the south vietnamese army while american jets bombarded north vietnam from the sky. nixon promised that american ground troops would no longer be involved in offensive combat. this is richard boyle firebase pace to commoners from the cambodian border sitting in a bunker not just rocks the first cap which a lot of people kind of wonder if anybody back in the room knows that we're out here. like. the batteries are a tourist was to be here no groceries 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 along the border. with you fighting for democracy actually i'd say you don't think why no. fight you go back home the north vietnamese were here they had two regiments to crack regiments totally surrounding the fire banks this place looks like you know. this is we start going out there will be sitting ducks doesn't think. he's. going to try to hire a hired man they don't have a lot to say just send us out to the captain progun ordered six men to go out on a night ambush what is 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 the outside world and they wrote a petition at the ready we are under siege and firebase pace we are faced daily with the decision of whether to take a court martial artist a patron of france or grew up in the event of mass prosecution. very unit our only hope would be. it's not so afraid but ordered that company pulled out they sent in another company they heard about the refusal of alpha company the other company also refused to fight and after that no company knows for one fight i said look we're not going to fight anymore. a lot of problems to winding down the vietnam war and just holding the enemy a day and moving south vietnamese troops into the line one unforeseen problem is trying to keep up the route of g.i. as you know they're going on that not soon enough it has produced flagrant

insubordination shooting of officers by their own men and i didn't a practice called writing on the purpose in my mind was he did to get me or intimidate to myself and all others in authority in the company and in the kind of sergeant gene taylor 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 talk openly about fragging and the military countermeasures seen more than one big group meeting where. actually all they talk about is frag and as we call pigs. i take your 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 that were used by all sides during world war two 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. we truly believe would stop that war was in the soldiers stop fighting i'm still an active officer as were all these other guys and sailors and it was two 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. biggest ship in san diego harbor some of. our. it's hard for people to realize this but that ship is not a naval ship and it's really part of airpower we used to attack as it's so it's a weapon of appalling weapon 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 i 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. you'll make a case in a way that they will have

a living. check out with a carrier qualified aviator and i give me a lot of credibility with people earned or not heard and even though i hadn't been in combat. people would give you a certain amount. craigs of course because i knew our whole lot of that our military functions. then. i think i can train a day later. right around the question why do you people that look so weird like they're. just 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 me and they want me in the war nation.

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 us senators were commenting on it you know even if the city folks for that ship to stay were still going about things just like oh but but but 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 because it. was a nine 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 and gifty 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 we can no longer remain silent about your crossties an injustice being perpetrated by the united states military and peoples of other nations and all the petty harassment the servicemen and women i made during dirt day after day. of this policy against person because of their race. we can walk for me against her anti-war g.i. because they do not agree with us with the. media in kosovo near ground troops and cia from vietnam as well as from 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 sung happy . that we had come to acknowledge their reality i read you. and refused to kill. you said no man will lose you and me. money is fighting 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 songs you. stand strong on. what. is true. and then a staple of one nine hundred seventy one just five years after how it's levy and donald duck it's known acts of protest thousands of vietnam veterans against the war converged on washington d.c. and threw their medals onto the capitol steps. without finding anything and. 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 approach us in a war good good they're good or we're the thousand years in like change so they thought they faded no i reacted there because they thought why should i go out there and are probably all just talking but how many of harder i really are. so much just spend the day after day after day you know just people talking about you know what's all about how we're going to deal with this stuff and how we will be able to afford change the world that's where we want to do for it wouldn't change the world we're pretty sure this sucks you know we're pretty sure those deserve to be here in so that did leave much room but changed the world you know people so we keep going are you going to cannot keep going back to vietnam because i tell you what other side guys 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 that going back because they can't allow us to know what the back there really was

and then you think about this shit and you say. gather they are. extremely shocked. it's got to push me in countries she asked. what's the what's the pride in saying you're a veteran and you're what you're a veteran something. like you have. been. a veteran of the massacre it someplace or another you know. you know what you know crime. and so don't talk about. those amazing to me there's many many g.i.'s who were actually in vietnam tax me there. and then spoke out against it and demonstrated against it and.

just. be. there through it. and that if there had been a hundred i would have been amazed. that there were thousands there's just. incredible and. brave people. to. thank. you. for your.

life. but. the way that you would. like.