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Posted By: rich-joy
05-May-05 - 06:08 AM
Thread Name: Vietnam war demos by soldiers DOCU
Subject: RE: Vietnam war demos by soldiers DOCU
It may be useful to include the synopsis of the doco from the ABC-TV website here in Oz :


" Sir! No Sir
9:30pm Thursday, April 28, 2005

Sir! No Sir is the story of how American GI's, in their thousands, created a widespread, unprecedented movement against the war in Vietnam.

With April 30th 2005 marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, Sir! No Sir provocatively links that historic moment to today's world.

Through demonstrations, underground newspapers, combat refusals and more, American GI's altered the course of the Vietnam War and rocked the foundations of the American military.

By 1971, resistance had grown to a level of mass defiance that rendered the majority of ground troops "unreliable" in the eyes of their government.

A Pentagon study that year determined more than half of all troops in the military opposed the war.

Yet today, the memory of the GI movement has been buried.

Along with gripping, exclusive interviews with key participants in the movement, Sir! No Sir unearths a wealth of visual material including never-before-seen film footage from personal archives, to tell a startling story.

With hundreds of thousands of American soldiers again spread across the globe and signs of opposition emerging among troops Sir! No Sir resurrects the suppressed memory of the GI movement. "



Interesting about that supposed Pentagon study ...
Cheers! R-J