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 Taken from GI Press Preservation Project Launched by John Arnold:
In the Vietnam War era, anti-war members of the US military and their supporters found voice for their concerns in what eventually added up to hundreds of underground newspapers produced and circulated everywhere, inside the Pentagon itself, aboard ships at sea and on and around military bases around the world. With names such as Left Face, About Face, Harass the Brass, A Four-Year Bummer, The Fort Polk Puke, RITA, FTA, Marine Blues and Rough Draft they served as an organizing tool, a platform for discussion of issues the military chain of command should have cared about but didn't and a way of letting the rest of America know that opposition to the war was widespread in the armed forces.
These newspapers, largely overlooked by historians, had great impact at the time and are now in danger of being lost altogether. They were generally printed on cheap paper that will crumble to dust before too many more years pass.... Read More
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- Getting the Word Out by Mike Kerber
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- A National Call To Action: A Campaign for Justice For Veterans by Jan A. Ruhman
- Answering Questions by Jim Willingham
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- Mister President (poem) by Dayl Wise
- The Ghost of Genocide Past (poem) by Mike Hastie
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