Toward an honest commemoration of the American War in Vietnam

The Full Disclosure campaign is a Veterans For Peace effort to speak truth to power and keep alive the antiwar perspective on the American war in Viet Nam — which is now approaching a series of 50th anniversary events. It represents a clear alternative to the Pentagon’s current efforts to sanitize and mythologize the Vietnam war and to thereby legitimize further unnecessary and destructive wars.

April U.S. combat deaths in Vietnam exceed the 33,629 men killed in the Korean War.

                  Fort Carson – Four GIs are restricted to post for possession of The Ally.

GI paper About Face lists 147 RITAs (Resistance or Resisters Inside the Army) as political prisoners held against their will in US military stockades.

April 5 75-100,000, including 200 GIs, march against the war in NYC; 30,000, including 30 GIs march in Chicago.

April 6 6,000, including 50 GIs march in support of the Presidio 27 in Los Angeles. See entry for February 14.

April 9 300 anti-war students at Harvard University seize the administration building, throw out 8 Deans, and then lock themselves in. They are later forcibly ejected.

April 6 A spontaneous anti-war rally in Central Park is recorded and later released as Environments 3.

April 10 Army officials admit that Pvt. John Hoffman (one of the Fort Jackson 8 protest group) was an agent provocateur.

April 12 100 GIs join 1,200 civilians in an antiwar march in Austin, Texas.

April 14 Norton AFB – Airman First Class David Mays, who spoke at a GI – Civilian Demonstration in Los Angeles is charged with insubordination.

Fort Gordon – Editor of The Last Harass is given early release under less than honorable conditions to “prevent him from carrying on his antimilitary organizing in the reserves.”

April 19 Fort Sill – Pvt. Andy Stapp, founder of American Servicemen’s Union, is given a dishonorable discharge. See entries for June 1, July 31 and December 25, 1967.

April 23 Fort Dix – Sp/4 Allen Myers is acquitted on charge of having put up an antiwar sticker and distributed unauthorized material. See entry for March 28.

April 26 196th Light Infantry Brigade publicly refuse to follow patrol orders in the first reported mass mutiny incident in the war.

April 30 U.S. troop levels peak at 543,400. There have been 33,641 Americans killed up to this point in the war, more than in the Korean War.