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Dee Knight, who left the US to resist the Vietnam War from Canada, declares, "Don't be afraid. Follow your conscience."
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"The fact that we were not shot encouraged us that this was not an unusual opinion ... that Vietnam was just a bad idea in so many ways."
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"The vast majority of guys who were sent to Vietnam were sent against their will...coerced into the army and had a chip on our shoulders."
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I said, "This is fucked up.” And he said, “You’re just having a little thing.” And I said, “No, it’s not okay.” I said, “We don’t belong here.”
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On organizing with the American Serviceman's Union: "I thought, what could I be doing that's more effective than helping the GIs organize to stay out of this war."
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"Four of us from the same platoon deserted together, which is the ultimate military crime," shares Ward Reilly, US Army Vietnam era GI resister
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"It's very hard for people to believe that their country would try to kill them," explains former National Guard member Zels Johnson.
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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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Michael Uhl led a combat intelligence team with the 11th Infantry Brigade in Vietnam during 1968-69. Afterwards, he helped expose the Phoenix Program.
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Speaking out against the war, as an active-duty GI, would incur some risks. I might have to pay a price, but I had to do it because business as usual was not an option."
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"We were holding demonstrations, and sometimes the demonstrations became very militant. Yet, the war kept on going."
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"The My Lai Massacre hit the front pages.... I went and turned myself in to the Presidio stockade, and refused orders to Vietnam."
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"Why didn’t I intervene and stop ... these guys from gang raping this 16-year-old villager? Why didn’t I stop that? I didn’t.”
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"... and they asked my friend and I did we want to go to Chicago the next day for a Black Panther rally. That was the night I became a revolutionary."
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"You know what Commander, I'm not going to be doing that ... I don't know if you've noticed it over here, but we're not the good guys," declared Lt. Gene Marx to his XO in Vietnam. "I wasn’t over there defending anybody’s
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"There was a lot of guilt that I didn't have the courage to stand up on the day that we killed those people," explains Paul Cox. "But I decided I'm not gonna be quiet anymore. And I haven't been quiet since."
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"It wasn't like I planned to be a resister or a troublemaker or anything of the sort," explains Randy Rowland, an organizer of the "Presidio 27 Mutiny."
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