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In reply to the discussion: I said this last year and it deserves repeating. We didn't fight for your freedom. [View all]eridani
(51,907 posts)Mentioned in the following interview with a Vietnam vet. Donald Duncan got around to quite a few colleges in the early 60s, including mine. The day after his talk, a campus antiwar group was founded. I can't imagine for two seconds that anyone converted to antiwar activism by this guy would spit on a vet. I've long since lost my copy of The New Legions, though.
http://www.talkaboutwars.com/group/alt.war.vietnam/messages/482426.html
He was a Green Beret who had done several tours, and then he got out and said that we're fighting on the wrong side, essentially. So I read that book, and that's where I began to develop a political consciousness, because everything he said made sense to me: that the peasants don't want us, that we're supporting these corrupt generals and landlords, and what kind of foreign policy are we advocating? At that point I decided that I had a responsibility when I came home to tell people what I had experienced and what I thought was the real deal.
See also
http://www.vietnamese-american.org/b10.html
The documentary Sir! No Sire! is a great inro to the GI antiwar movement
http://www.sirnosir.com/the_film/reviews_130.html