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"I told my command officer that I wasn't going to, I was refusing my orders to Vietnam ... In his rage, he thought if he court-martialed me, he'd have to stay in the Army past his discharge date."
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The Shelter Half was located near Fort Lewis, WA, where US Army soldier Deni Leonard was stationed. The coffeehouse was a base for him and others trying to end the war in Vietnam.
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By Bill Ramsey. Norman Mailer dubbed us “armies of the night.” But I retreated before sunset to what I thought would be safer ground as our our protesting “armies” lit camp fires outside the Pentagon.
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From Colectivo Editorial Amor y Rabia A coulpe of years ago, we published (in spanish) in our magazine a monography about the GI Resistance against the war in Vietnam. It’s the translation of a german book
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This post originally appeared at mnvietnam.com. David Cooley enlisted in the Navy as a jet engine mechanic and found himself having a direct role in supplying bombs for aircraft carriers. He was in country in 1972, one year after
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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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