This is a fundraising video for a filmmaker producing a documentary featuring men from all walks of life who opposed the Vietnam War and defied the draft, forever changing their lives and shaping American history.
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Muhammad Ali refuses to be drafted, explaining that "My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn't put no dogs on me, they didn't rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father... Shoot them for what? ...How can I shoot them poor people, Just take me to jail."
For many veterans of the Vietnam War, their homecoming was a powerful first encounter that made their adjustment to civilian society more difficult. This is the story of a Kentucky base that felt it was time to give these veterans the welcome home they never received.
College students are interviewed, and voice a variety of opinions on drafting women into the military and placing them in combat roles.
A promotional video from the Australian Department of Defence that attempts to appeal to potential female recruits.
Female soldiers from Fort Columbus talk to GQ magazine about their experiences and travails in the U.S. Army.
Female Marines discuss their motivations for joining the military, the challenges they face, and the obstacles they have overcome to become fully integrated members of their units.
Marine Captain Katie Petronio, an Iraq and Afghanistan vet and "combat-experienced Marine officer" criticizes the idea of female infantry members, arguing that "we are not all created equal" and that the Marine Corps should not be "dismantled" to suit a "political agenda."
Former Florida State Representative and retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Allen West expresses his disapproval of female soldiers in combat, calling it a "social experiment" and likening it to women joining the NHL and NBA.
