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PATRICK DOOLEY THE VIETNAM WAR: LOUISIANA REMEMBERS

This post originally appeared at ladigitalmedia.org. DETAILS Collection:LPB Genre: Interview Place Covered: Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, Vietnam Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television

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A Soldier’s Homecoming That didn’t Make it into Burns/Novick

The day after I came home from Vietnam in early March 1968, I took the money I’d saved in those 13 months and went to West German Motors in Ft. Washington, PA, and bought a brand new Volkswagen. VW Beetle. Red with black

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GI Story: On Giving Young Men Guns

By Paul Cox In 1968, draft notice in hand, I joined the Marines. Since the Marine dress blue uniforms are the best looking, my addled teenage brain reasoned that they must be the best. So I joined on the basis of a fashion

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The Full Disclosure campaign is a Veterans For Peace effort to speak truth to power and keep alive the antiwar perspective on the American war in Viet Nam — which is being commemorated during this decade with a series of 50th anniversary events. Full Disclosure represents a clear alternative to the Pentagon’s current efforts to sanitize and mythologize that war, and to thereby legitimize further unnecessary and destructive wars.

This Month in History: 1969

September 2 Ho Chi Minh dies of a heart attack at age 79. He is succeeded by Lê Duẩn, who publicly reads part of the last will of Ho Chi Minh urging the North Vietnamese to fight on “until the last Yankee has gone.”

September 5 The U.S. Army brings murder charges against Lt. William Calley concerning the massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai on March 16,1968.

Fort Knox coffee house is closed by police and the landlord refuses rent on advice of county attorney.

September 12 MPs raid a church in Honolulu, Hawai’i, capturing 12 of 23 anti-war GIs who have taken sanctuary there for 38 days. The other GIs escape.

Meanwhile, in Washington D.C., the Pentagon issues “Guidelines for Handling Dissident and Protest Activities Among Members of the Armed Forces.”

September 14 Several hundred prisoners at California’s Camp Pendleton brig break out of their barracks, setting fires and leaving the prison in shambles before being suppressed by MPs wielding tear gas.

September 16 President Nixon orders the withdrawal of 35,000 soldiers from VietNam and a reduction in draft calls.

September 25 Senator Charles Goodell (R-NY) proposes legislation requiring the withdrawal of U.S. troops and barring use of Congressional funds for maintaining U.S. military personnel by the end of 1970.

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PATRICK DOOLEY THE VIETNAM WAR: LOUISIANA REMEMBERS

A Soldier’s Homecoming That didn’t Make it into Burns/Novick

GI Story: On Giving Young Men Guns

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On Burns/Novick PBS Documentary

Philip Jones Griffiths’ Viet Nam

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2016 National Book Award Finalist, Viet Thanh Nguyen:

Agent Orange Awareness

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