Word: gi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used to think that war was Henry Fonda shooting it out behind a water trough on a dusty Wyoming street. Or Achilles chasing Hector around Troy. So the only way that I have been able to understand the war in Vietnam is to pretend, each time a GI or a Vietnamese died, that it was my brother or my father or my mother that died. By now over a million Vietnamese have been killed and probably 80 thousand Americans. If all of us felt even a little bit of that in our stomachs, not even all of America could digest...
Thirty-five members of the Nonviolent Direct Action Group plan to distribute leaflets concerning he GI's rights and the Indochina war at Ft. Devens, in Ayer, Mass., this afternoon. The action does not have the required approval of he base Provost Marshal...
David Keyser, a spokesman for the group, said yesterday the action is "designed to bring before the public the fact that GI's are third-class citizens, denied the right to know, to receive uncensored information...
Objectives and tactics were roughed out by group members at a meeting Friday. Organizers stressed the importance of getting information to the GI's-particularly Article I of the Bill of Rights-and the need for restraint and non-violence...
...there was a rally in front of the Sheraton-Cleveland, and members of the SMC-YSA group, as well as a GI and a labor union leader, addressed the crowd. After awhile, a group broke off from the main demonstration of about 2000 people, and marched over to the city hall. About 300 people took part in this, the demonstration that SDS had been planning. The crowd gathered on the front steps of the city hall- which was closed- and listened to several speeches. About a dozen police cars filled with helmeted policemen lined the streets near the city hall...