howard levy spent three years in prison. along with him three 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. 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 one nine hundred sixty six former green beret donald duncan was the featured speaker at an antiwar meeting at the town hall in manhattan i just wanted to do what i knew about it. 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 quad washer was 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

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 my. f. 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. 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 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

and then a staple of one nine hundred seventy one just five years after howard 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 that. 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 you couldn't voyageurs protests in a war good good good good or by all we had a thousand years in nineteen so they thought they did know how to react today because they thought there were bunch of them they were out there and probably all just dogs how many of barter i will or. so much so just spent a day after day after day just people talking about you know what's it all about and how we're going to deal with this stuff and how we are really good move 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 h