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On August 4, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson admitted there was no US losses in the Gulf of Tonkin incident in a televised speech that was also published in leading newspapers the following day. This speech is now hidden in
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We're seeking individuals who took a stand of some kind against war in general, or a specific war, while in uniform, or who refused to be drafted.
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“I was a coward, not for leaving the war, but for having been a part of it in the first place. I failed to fulfill my moral duty as a human being, and instead I chose to fulfill my duty as a soldier…. I am confined to a
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In 1968 my friend Bruce Cline and I took symbolic sanctuary in the Unitarian Church in Buffalo, NY. Over the course of the nine days we were in Sanctuary we published a newsletter, a copy of the first edition is attached. Bruce
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Don’t turn them away! Migrants in the Central American caravan are not our enemies. Print the open letter (PDF) to troops.
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Renewing Resistance in 2019 & Moving Forward. Select films, readings, books, websites, and music that tell the stories of 50 years of GI resistance.
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This article originally appeared at alternet.org. By Robert Scheer In conversation with Robert Scheer, veterans Ron Kovic and Maj. Danny Sjursen trace the United States’ violent trajectory since the Vietnam War. American
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Photo: A clergyman joining those burning draft cards at Arlington Street Church in Boston, October 1967. Joe Runci/The Boston Globe, via Getty Images This article originally appeared at the nytimes.com. By Michael Stewart
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Photo: The Harvey Richards Media Archive This article originally appeared at apjjf.org By Jerry Lembcke Recovering the history of in-service dissent during the war in Vietnam is of utmost importance. Recognition of that dissent
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By David Cortright One of the least known but most important chapters in the history of America’s encounter with Vietnam was the internal rebellion that wracked the U.S. military. From the Long Binh jail in Vietnam, to Travis
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This post originally appeared at warbirdforum.com. Photo Credit: Rafal Olkis | Shutterstock.com By Col. Robert D. Heinl, Jr. Armed Forces Journal, 7 June 1971 (This copyrighted material is posted as a public service for its
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A Guide to Web Sites This web site complements an offline annotated bibliography project underway since January 2000. A September 2014 major revision reorganizes the material and verifies all links. The previous version (with
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50th Anniversary Dates to Commemorate: Resistance to and in the Military: 1969 Historian David Cortright has noted: “By 1969 the Army had ceased to function as an effective fighting force and was rapidly disintegrating.
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This interview with Veterans For Peace member Susan Schnall about her 1968 war resistance while on active duty as a Navy nurse was first published in the Winter 2018 edition of the VFP Newsletter. Veterans For Peace: When you
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Photo: Army privates (L-R) Dennis Mora, James Johnson, and David Samas announce their refusal to participate in the Vietnam War in 1966. (Finer/Memorial University of Newfoundland) “We Will Not Be Part of this Unjust, Immoral,
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Photo: A former stockade in Building 1213 at Fort Winfield Scott. The 1912 stockade, which held drafted men who refused to deploy to Vietnam in 1968, still has bars on the windows and stenciled lettering on peeling walls that
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During America’s War in Vietnam, tens of thousands of American GIs and veterans opposed the war. They marched, refused to fight, and they deserted. They wrote and distributed hundreds of thousands of underground newspapers
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Photo: War Remnants Museum Exhibit in Ho Chi Minh City Putting up Photo by Harvey Richards of the October 12, 1968 GI March against the Vietnam War. This post originally appeared at hrmediaarchive.estuarypress.com. by Paul
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Photo: Veterans against the war (PEDIN, JOHN). This article originally appeared at the nydailynews.com. By Susan M. Schnall. In 1967, I was a Navy nurse at Oak Knoll Hospital, which was built during World War II in Oakland,
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Photo: Two Vietnamese children lie on the ground as they’re about to be shot. Son My, South Vietnam. March 16, 1968. Wikimedia Commons This article originally appeared at democracynow.org. As a group of
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