War and the Culture of Violence
Against The Current vol. 125
Feeley, Dianne
http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/168
Date Written: 2006-11-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2006
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13286
Last year I had the opportunity to see “Winter Soldier,” a rarely shown 1971 documentary based on the testimony of over 100 soldiers recently back from Vietnam. It was filmed during a three-day hearing on war crimes that Vietnam Vets against the War organized in Detroit. Young soldiers spoke about atrocities they had committed in the name of freedom and democracy: throwing suspects out of planes, torching villages, raping women, killing civilians. Of course the Nixon administration attempted to discredit the soldiers and their stories.
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