Word: gi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, many black enlisted men are fed up with fighting and dying for a racist America. A majority of black GI's in the survey feel that they have no business fighting in Southeast Asia. They say their fight is in the United States, against repression and racism. A frightening number - 45 per cent of black combat troops - say they would join riots and take up arms if necessary, to get the rights they have been deprived of at home. The spirit of black militancy has enveloped the GI on the battle ground in much the same manner...
...items, to black and white Americans and interviewed many of the respondents at length between May and September, 1969. Although it was not a scientifically designed probability sample, the 833 servicemen were selected in a variety of units and geographic locations, and do represent a significant trend in GI attitudes. Terry graduated from Brown University in 1959 where he edited the Brown Daily Herald. He was a Rockefeller Fellow at the University of Chicago from 1959-60. He covered the black revolution for Time and the Washington Post from...
...best way to end this war is to threaten to use 'the bomb,'" said James Bennett, a white soldier from San Lorenzo, Calif. "If they don't surrender, then use it. You'll save a lot of GI's, and perhaps we won't have many more Vietnams...
Despite the military's contention that life for blacks is better in service than out, fewer than three black GI's in ten said they get along better with whites in Vietnam than they did back home. And nearly 65 per cent of them expect the racial strife in Vietnam to grow...
...strong majority of white GI's took exception to the protests, including 47 per cent who would either draft or jail the student dissenters. "I'd like to kick them in the ass," said James Pole, a white private from Way-cross, Ga. "They should be made to see how we live and die over here," argued Bennett, "then perhaps they would appreciate college more...