Military Resistance 9E: 9 Five Days

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From: [Combat Veteran, 10th mountain div]

To: Military ResistanceSent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 3:11 PM
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Subject: Publication

I am glad people like you make this information common knowledge to civilians orthey would never hear about it.

Thanks bunches.

Yes #2:From: ANNE WTo: Military ResistanceSent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 10:40 AMSubject: subscribe

Re Military Resistance 8L2

I grew up as an Army brat - Dad was drafted in WW II and retired 32 years later asa Sgt Major E 9

I married Army twice and was a Reserve wife

I have too many friends that are active duty or vets

I knew this was going on - I am glad you are publicizing it

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Yes #3:From: David McReynoldsTo: Military Resistance NewsletterSent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 9:44 PMSubject: Military Resistance 8L5: Blinding Flashes Of The Obvious

Tom puts this bulletin out almost every night. I've clipped out two or three pagesof very important text - write him if you want a copy. (Don't bother to send it on tothe FBI, they already monitor him).

While Tom isn't old, he isn't a kid. The night he came by here a couple of yearsago to talk about funding and a meeting at Judson Memorial Church he washuffing and puffing from his walk up to the fourth floor. He puts this bulletin outafter a full day's work elsewhere.

If you know anyone in the military, get this to them.

They have friends in the peace movement.


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They have none in the government.

David

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Prize #1:April 1967 Ramparts Magazine:

This special issue exposing CIA dirtywork also contains anarticle by Don Duncan, Special Forces soldier, who was one of

the first soldiers to oppose the war on Vietnam.
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[Remarkably well preserved copy.]

Prize #2:

Portrait Poster Of Garett Reppenhagen, Iraq VeteransAgainst The War, By Jon Orlando, Photography

15x24Jon Orlando writes: The portrait below is of Garett Reppenhagen, who in his ownwords, is a Veteran of the Iraq War. An ex United States Cavalry Sniper who hasdecided to live the rest of his life opposed to the imperialism and materialism that has

eaten away at the soul of humanity.

Ive dedicated myself to improving my mind and repairing my spirit, and to assist othersto do the same. My goals are to stir the peaceful revolution into reality and share myexperiences by means of any expression I can master.


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Prize #3:The Incomparable Poems Of Dennis Serdel,

Signed Copy Dennis Serdel 2009


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Out of print now, this copy is completely fresh and new. Thanks to Dennis Serdel forsending to help Military Resistance.

You know his work from Military Resistance Newsletter, but heres a reminder,from this book:

The DevilWritten by Dennis Serdel, Military Resistance 2010; Vietnam 1967-68 (one tour) LightInfantry, Americal Div. 11th Brigade; United Auto Workers GM Retiree

the 4 star death generals drip bloodfrom their eye teeth like little childrenwith their halloween masksas they shout trick or treat ba-a-a-bymany ugly americans with wjump up and down with stars and stripesin their bully mouthscrying kill kill kill like laughing hyenasawol-ing this war with sulfur yellowsupport the war stickers plasteredon the backs of their cars truckssuvs on backs of the soldiersoverseas fighting for other peoples landthe rabble wearing their death t-shirtsthat bark america bless godhuge statues of jesus on the crossare being used as hammersto slam the muslims flatkilling mohammed everybodyloving dripping bloodand the devil in the white housegurgling lies every time he speakskills 24 hours a dayhorns hoofs and tail dragging hellon earth torturing missing armslegs children women old menyoung men putrid air sand gunpowderoil exhaustion sweati dont care bombs guns landminesthe devil is at his ranch making moneykilling anyway he can


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Prize #4 & 5:May 1917: Russia

The War Bonds That Brought On A Revolution[Two Denominations Available]

In February 1917, Russian workers and soldiers rose in revolution to overthrow a feudalgovernment that had dragged them into an Imperial War, World War 1, where Russiansdied, at home and in the Army, for the glory and greed of the Czar, Emperor of Russia.

Having gotten rid of him, they thought the new government, led by Prime MinisterKerensky, would stop the war. Instead, in May 1917, he floated the Kerensky War Loan,gold backed bonds to borrow $188 million, to pay for keeping Russia in the war. [Gee,does that betrayal sound familiar?]

Seeing that nothing less would do, 6 months later the elected soldiers and workerscouncils organized a second revolution that wiped Kerenskys government of generals,war profiteers, crooked politicians, and capitalists off the face of the earth.

These are the Kerensky war bonds. The blue is for 500 gold rubles, the red for 1000gold rubles. If you win one, feel free to go to Moscow and see if they will honor the debt.

P.S. They were purchased on 9.1.64 from (no joke) Carl Marks & Co., Inc., New York.If you win one, youll get a copy of the bill of sale.


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Prize #6:Published 1867: By Edward Bacon, Union Army

A brilliantly written account of Union civil war soldiers in Louisiana by one ofthem, featuring stupid, drunken cowardly officers; incompetent fools slaughteringtheir own troops in battle; and officers busy thieving cotton to sell for their ownprofit while their soldiers die, and who try to put soldiers who catch them stealingin front of a court-martial. Sound familiar?

Other than the cover, this is an exact photo reprint of the original book, 300 pages, inbeautiful condition.

[Thanks to Ward Reilly, Veterans For Peace, for recommending.

Prize #7:Vietnam GI: Complete

A complete set of Vietnam GIs. The originals were a bit rough, sometimes a line atthe bottom gone, but every page is there. Over 100 pages, full 11x17 size.

Not available complete from anybody else, anywhere


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Edited by Jeff Sharlet until his death (see below), this newspaper rocked the world,attracting attention even from Time Magazine, and extremely hostile attention from thechain of command.

The pages and pages of letters in the paper from troops in Vietnam condemningthe war are lost to history, but you can find them here:

VIETNAM GIAugust 1969

Many good men never came back from Nam. Some came back disabled in mind. JeffSharlet came back a pretty together cat--and he came back angry. Jeff started VGI, andfor almost two years poured his life into it, in an endless succession of 18-hour daystrying to organize men to fight for their own rights.

On Monday, June 16th, at 2:45 pm, Jeff died in the Miami VA Hospital. He died of asudden heart failure, brought on by the uncontrollable growth of the cancer that hadearlier destroyed his kidney.

There was no way to save him. He was only 27 years old.

Rather than wait for the draft, like so many others Jeff went RA. With dreams of seeingEurope, he applied for "translator-interpreter", and found himself at the US ArmyLanguage School at Monterey, California. But instead of French, Czech or German, hewas assigned a strange language called "Vietnamese"--. spoken in a country he couldn'teven find on the map. For eleven months in 1962 he was drilled in Vietnamese.


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In 1963 he was assigned to Army Security Agency, and left for his first tour in Nam.Stationed in Saigon awhile, Jeff witnessed the ARVN coup that overthrew Saigondictator Ngo Diem.

On his second tour his ASA unit was stationed near Phu Bai. Engaged in top-secretwork monitoring, decoding and translating North Vietnamese radio messages, they woreAF uniforms and worked at a small air base.

But every time they went into the bars, every bargirl could reel off all the facts about theirmission.

Speaking the language well, Jeff could talk to many Vietnamese about what washappening to their country.

He spent long hours questioning ex-Foreign Legion men, who'd settled in Vietnam afterthe French left, peasants, ARVN officers, students, and even suspected VC agents. Bythe time he ETSed in July, 1964 he'd put a lot of pieces together.

Jeff went back to school, and got his college degree (with honors) from IndianaUniversity in 1967.

During his "GI Bill years" he joined the peace movement, and became chairman ofhis local chapter of Students for a Democratic Society.

But he had become increasingly disillusioned about the student movement, andfelt that its shallowness and snotty attitude towards other people made itineffective.

That summer he went to New York City to work with Vietnam Veterans Against the

War, and it was there that he decided to try to organize other GIs to fight thebrass. Jeff had won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for graduate study at theUniversity of Chicago.

He enrolled and" picked up his check. From then on all his time and money weresunk into starting a newspaper for servicemen.

After two years of endless traveling, fund-raising and writing, Jeff's drive started to fade.That restless energy that had brought him countless miles to base after base wasn'tthere.

After his last trip to Ft. Hood in the Fall of 1968, Jeff complained that he was really beat,

burnt out. We all agreed that he should go "on leave" and take a rest.

It was while visiting friends in Boston that the first really severe pains started. Jeff flewhome to Florida, and entered the hospital.

From there it was steadily downhill all the way.

The removal of his left kidney, massive radiation treatments, drugs--nothing stopped thegrowth of his cancer.


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At the end he was weak and emaciated, without enough breath in his lungs to speak formore than a few sentences.

He said that he had many new ideas for our fight, but was just too exhausted to talkabout them.

Jeff was a truly rare man.

He was our friend and comrade, and those of us who came together in this fight willnever forget him. VGI, the paper that so many readers called "the truth paper," will goon fighting.

Prize #8:Lenin In October DVD

By Russian director Mikhail Romm. Stalin insisted that he be portrayed as a great heroin this film. After 1956, Romm cut out all images of Stalin.

Starring Boris Shchukin as Lenin. Opened but perfect.


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Prize #9:[Yeah, part of the year is gone, but the photos are truly

beautiful! 11x81/2]

Prize #10:Being An Exotic Drinking Book:

[1951: Cloth cover beat up, but inside first class.]


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Prizes #11, 12, 13Ten Different Early Issues Of GI Special Printed Out In

Full Color

Because most readers have come on within the last four years, many people havenever seen earlier GI Specials.

None in these prizes will be more recent than 2004.

A slice of history.

[Example of front page:]

GI Special: [email protected] 4.27.04 Print it out (color best). Pass it on.

GI SPECIAL 2#67 BRING THEM ALL HOME NOW, ALIVE

US special forces carry a body bag following an attack on US military Humvees inBaghdad that blew up four US military vehicles. (AFP/Marwan Naamani)
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Call To Organize From

Iraq Vet:Together We Can EndThis Occupation

From: http://www.bringthemhomenow.com/ Posted 4.24.04

To My Fellow Troops in the Iraq War

Being in today's military can be a very tough thing, a feeling that is even worse when youdon't believe in what you are fighting for.

I was in that situation a year ago when I was in Iraq with the 1st Marine Division.

I knew the war I was fighting in was wrong but I didn't see myself as having muchchoice. I knew that as soon as I left the Middle East I would make my feelingsknown and that is something I have done.

The greatest surprise to me since then is that people have actually listened to me.

People really want to hear what I have to say about the war. Average people want tohear my thoughts and experiences, both good and bad.

The country isn't divided like we see in the news. Not everyone is for or against the war.Many people still don't know how they feel about what is going on in Iraq. The voice ofsomeone who has served there carries more weight then you could ever imagine.

I've changed someone's perspective on the war any number of times simply sitting on abarstool next to them and talking about what I know.

So now you might be asking how you can actually make your voice heard. I know forthose of you in the service sounding off is much harder then for the recent veterans likemyself, but you can still speak out.

All of us, veterans, reservists, National Guard and active duty, can side with MilitaryFamilies Speak Out, Veterans For Peace, and other folks standing up to stop thesenseless killing of Americans and Iraqis. Those of us with direct experience in thisdisastrous occupation need to make our voices heard. Active duty troops don't evenhave to "speak" yourselves. Just letting those of us who are now out know that you sidewith us lends weight to our cause and speaks volumes.


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Imagine walking up to George Bush and saying that there are 100, 200, 300, 1000,5000 or more participants from his "War on Terror" who oppose the USoccupation in Iraq.

That's the kind of force that can end this war, just like it did in Vietnam. Togetherwe can end this occupation and save the lives of our fellow American servicemenand women.

Michael HoffmanVeteran, USMC 2nd Marine division, ArtilleryServed with 1st Marine Division in 2003 invasion of IraqContact Michael at [email protected] with questions or to join the cause.

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