From The Peace Report

Will Griffin of The Peace Report interviews Mike Hastie, a Vietnam Veteran turned antiwar activist and member of Veterans For Peace.  He gathered questions on social media and asked them to Mike.

The following is a timeline of questions for Video I:  1:50 Tell us about yourself 5:15 Since your father was a respected U.S. Army Officer, did that inspire you to join the military? 6:28 What’s the message on your shirt say? 9:54 When did you first regret joining the military? 13:24 Your experience in Vietnam was over 40 years ago but you speak about it as if it happened yesterday? 15:01 What do you think about psychedelics helping veterans with depression and PTSD? 21:14 How do veterans deal with the guilt of participation? 30:53 Did you apply for conscientious objector status? 32:37 How do you feel about people who took a moral stand and refused to go to Vietnam? 38:52 At what point did all of the nonsense come together for you and how did you first began to speak out about it? 40:44 Why does it take time for veterans to speak out after their military experience?

The following is a timeline of questions for Video II below:   00:40 How do we solve homelessness? 09:33 When you speak to high school students, what do you tell them? 27:20 Isn’t it our duty as veterans who have ‘woken up’ to speak out?

Mike Hastie’s My Lai article in Counterpunch.