On this day, 14 July 1966 a group of American GIs were given the order to deploy to Vietnam. Three of them refused, and became the Fort Hood Three: the most high profile US refuseniks to date. They were court-martialled and each jailed for five years. But they helped spark a militant anti-war GI movement which brought an early end to the conflict.
We spoke to anti-war Vietnam veterans in our podcast about the GI resistance movement: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e10-the-gi-resistance-in-vietnam-part-1/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1166945426823939/?type=3