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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...
...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...
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...