By Mike Hastie, Army Medic Viet Nam With all armaments, whether they were U.S. airstrikes, artillery from Navy war ships, or artillery from U.S. firebases in Viet Nam, or U.S. ground troops, including U.S. allies, or the spraying of deadly Agent Orange, there was not one day during the Viet Nam War, where the U.S. […]
“Thank you both so much for spending the day with us today! Our students really need to hear what John has to say more than ever in this tumultuous climate and your work truly does make a difference — you are saving lives in all sorts of different ways!!” – received from a NYC high […]
On Memorial Day, radio host Dennison Joyce interviewed two We Are Not Your Soldiers presenters, Joe Urgo and Joy Damiani, on his WIOX Catskill radio show “Through the Looking Glass.” When Dennison taught in a NYC high school he often had our speakers visit his classes. On the hour-long show Joe and Joy speak about […]
A great resource Half a year ago David Vine’s new book, The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State was launched. The book was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History. Reviewers have called the book “revelatory”, “brilliantly document[ed]”, and “a […]
All our April We Are Not Your Soldiers school visits continued to be conducted remotely. We began by going to three classes at a Manhattan college where the students viewed “Collateral Murder” and then discussed, with Army veteran John Burns, the film, his own experiences in the military and the implications of ethics and technology, […]
Joe Urgo, Vietnam veteran who presents at schools with We Are Not Your Soldiers, was interviewed in April on the 50th anniversary of Dewey Canyon III, when Vietnam veterans (and some active duty military) demanded an end to the US war on Vietnam. They spent a week on the streets of Washington, bringing the war […]
“Unmanned” is a short feature film dealing with the conflicts of a drone pilot stationed somewhere in the United States. Its 21 minutes register with viewers just like reading an impactful short story would. We show clips from it during many of our We Are Not Your Soldiers classroom visits. After viewing it with his high school […]
Find out more about this new book and how to obtain it, here. “It’s hard to believe that a 17-year-old who can’t vote or drink can go to war. Del Duca’s experience as one of those teens — who joined the National Guard to pay for college and then finds herself on the verge of […]
By Edward Hasbrouck From AntiWar.Blog | Original Article As Doug Bandow reported on Antiwar.com Wednesday, military conscription is a bad idea that just won’t die – and right now it’s under active consideration in Congress. Two years ago, Doug Bandow and I were both invited to testify before the National Commission on Military, National, and […]
By Ken Klippenstein and Matthew Cole From The Intercept | Original Article The Army is investigating a possible series of sexual assaults of a female soldier at the Army training base in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, a commander at the base told press yesterday. The investigation, according to a military official with direct knowledge, is scrutinizing […]
By Mike Hastie, Army Medic Vietnam It is Sunday night, around 9:00 PM on March 14, 2021 in Portland, Oregon. In two days, it will be the 53rd Anniversary of the My Lai Massacre. Since I was a soldier in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam, I have made three trips back to Viet Nam, […]
We continue to make remote visits to classes. At the end of February, we went to a large NYC high school with Miles Megaciph, Marines veteran, and spent the day with students in six classes. One student sent a note thanking him “for sharing with us your experience and journey from a former Marine to […]
