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...Larry Chartienitz, a 34-year-old exMarine, spoke for his organization, Veterans Against Foreign Wars: "I would fight to really defend this country, but no one should willingly sign up to fight for nothing for some politician and have poison put in your body...
Like many Vietnam vets, Chartienitz says that exposure to the defoliant Agent Orange--used heavily by the United States army in Southeast Asia--has damaged his health since the war and may make him susceptible to cancer...
Urged on by leaders such as Hernandez and Chartienitz and organized by the Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft (BAARD), the anti-registration troop in this area has maintained a determined effort to publicize what they see as a purely political, and ultimately dangerous and immoral government policy. But the movement is burdened with a pervasive pessimism about the extent of its impact and what its members perceive as a continuing threat...
...Larry Chartienitz, a 34-year-old veteran of the Vietnam war, said those who fought in Southeast Asia "are often the only ones who can expose young people to a history of Vietnam other than the stilted testimony in textbooks...
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