Category: GI Resisters

“We were holding demonstrations, and sometimes the demonstrations became very militant. Yet, the war kept on going.”

“The My Lai Massacre hit the front pages…. I went and turned myself in to the Presidio stockade, and refused orders to Vietnam.”

“Why didn’t I intervene and stop this guy from smacking around this papasan or these guys from gang raping this 16-year-old villager? Why didn’t I stop that? I didn’t.”

“… 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.”

“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.

“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.