Wayne smith who served as a combat medic during vietnam. We wanted to get home. We just wanted to survive. And yet there is an enormous guilt that stays with me and many my brothers and sisters today that we should have known better. We should have been sitting where you are. That we should have been more active, more informed, and more in opposition to that war. Amy all of that and more coming up. This is democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. As the nation celebrates memorial day, we look back at the vietnam war. Fifty years ago, on march 7, 1965, 3500 u. S. Marines landed in south vietnam, marking the start of the u. S. Ground war in vietnam. That same day, in alabama, state troopers beat back civil rights protesters in selma trying to walk over the Edmund Pettus bridge. Weeks later, the first teachin against the vietnam war was held at the university of michigan. By 1968, the u. S. Had half a million troops in vietnam. The war continued until apr
Challenge all forms of injustice. Amy memorial day, we look back at the vietnam war. Fifty years ago, on march 7, 1965, 40 years after it ended. Vietnam the power of protest. That was the number of a Conference Held in washington d. C. We will hear from ron dellums Pat Schroeder, tom hayden and wayne smith who served as a combat medic during vietnam. We wanted to get home. We just wanted to survive. And yet there is an enormous guilt that stays with me and many my brothers and sisters today that we should have known better. We should have been sitting where you are. That we should have been more active, more informed, and more in opposition to that war. Amy all of that and more coming up. This is democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. As the nation celebrates memorial day, we look back at the vietnam war. Fifty years ago, on march 7, 1965, 3500 u. S. Marines landed in south vietnam, marking the start of the u. S. Ground war in vietnam. That same day,
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