“We didn’t renounce our constitutional rights simply because we were soldiers” – Andrew Pulley, “Fort Jackson 8” anti-war GI defendant.
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Podcast: “It didn’t make any sense to me” – Mike Wittels
“Why would I want to blow a hole the size of a grapefruit into someone, just because somebody said, ‘Hey, that’s your enemy””?
Podcast: “It was a bit crazy.” Andy Berman on enlisting to stop the war
“We were holding demonstrations, and sometimes the demonstrations became very militant. Yet, the war kept on going.”
Podcast: Mike Wong, “All of a sudden, this all became very real”
“The My Lai Massacre hit the front pages…. I went and turned myself in to the Presidio stockade, and refused orders to Vietnam.”
Podcast: Doug Rawlings, “It was a very thin line and you could very easily step across it”
“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.”
Podcast: Patrick McCann, “I really realized the United States was a criminal enterprise”
“… 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.”
Podcast: Gene Marx, “Sir: We’re not the good guys”
“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 freedom.”
Podcast: Paul Cox, Vietnam grunt to underground GI paper publisher
“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.”
Podcast: Randy Rowland, “Presidio 27 Mutiny” and lifelong resistance
“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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