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Vietnam combat veteran Daniel Shea on his time in Vietnam, Agent Orange, and post traumatic stress.
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"Over 4,000 junior officers ... brought suit against the Secretary of Defense for war crimes, who carried out demonstrations, who were quite active in their opposition."
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US Marine Ahmad Daniels was sentenced to a decade in prison for speaking to other servicemen about the injustices he saw and questioning military authority.
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Al Glatkowski for the very first time explains how and why he helped seize a US naval ship transporting napalm for the Vietnam War.
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"I met the enemy, guess who it was? It was me. And it's always true. And that saved me. That has really saved me."
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Attorney Eric Seitz on defending war objectors, "Our efforts were better utilized representing people in the military who were beginning to stir."
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While on active duty, "We flew the plane and fliers over five military installations in the SF Bay Area," explained the former Army "Peace Nurse."
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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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