An American soldier in hospital explained how he was wounded: “I was told that the way to tell a hostile Vietnamese from a friendly Vietnamese was to shout ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ If he shoots, he’s unfriendly. So I saw this dude and yelled ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ and he yelled back, ‘To hell with President Johnson!’ We were shaking hands when a truck hit us.” - 1,001 Ways to Beat the Draft by Tuli Kupferburg. History of the widespread mutiny of US troops in Vietnam that brought the world's most powerful military machine to its knees. The GI anti-war movement within the army was one of the decisive factors in ending the war. The U.S. government would be happy to see the history of the Vietnam War buried and forgotten. Not least because it saw the world’s greatest superpower defeated by a peasant army, but mainly because of what defeated the war effort the collective resistance of the enlisted men and women in the U.S. armed forces, who mutinied, sabotaged, fragged and smoked their way to a full withdrawal and an end to the conflict ✊✌️ #powertothepeople #peace #1960s #1970s #og107 #og107pants #og107shirt #jungleshirt #together #sunglasses #vintagemenswear #vintagestyle #vintagephoto #vintagestylenotvintagevalues https://www.instagram.com/p/CBigkNpjCB1/?igshid=1freud66rg8r3
