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\ OPEN SIGHTS BY GI'S FOR GI'S Free to G Is Others — .25 HÖ7T Feb. 1969 A beginning... Everywhere we go People want to know Who we are, where we come from So we tell them: This is the first issue of "Open Sights." It is written by GI's in the Washington area for GI's in the Washington area. If the civilians who read the paper don't understand some of the things we write about - the above cadence for instance - let them ask a GI for an explanation, or let them come in and find out what it's all about for themselves. We're against the war, and we don't like the brass too much either. Right now, we're an Army paper - at least everyone working on the paper is Army. We don't want to remain an Army paper. We know there are GI's in all the services who feel about the way we do about the war, and we'd like to get together with them and expand the paper into an all-services paper. We will have, in all future issues, a "Lette to the Editor" column entitled "Sound Off which will print letters on just about a topic you think would interest our reade The paper, as it stands right now, doesn't pretend to tepresent all the GI's in the DC area, or even all the antiwar GI's. There are unquestionably DC area GI's already organized into antiwar groups, and there are of course tens of thousands of GI's in the area who are against the war who haven't come into contact with groups of any kind. We want these people to get to know each other, to break out of their isolation. We hope this paper will help. One more thing - we're legal. We don't want anybody to do anything that will make it easy for the brass to hit him with the UCMJ. We do want GI's to be aware of their legal rights. We want GI's to know that the Constitution applies to us right now, just as it did before we came in. We have the same rights to a free press, free speech, and free assembly as we did as civilians. If we want to put out a paper, we can (and will), and if we want to exercise our right of free assembly by demonstrating against the war, we can and will. From the day we took that one step forward and said "Here, Sir," to the Induction Officer, they've done their damndest to f over our minds and we want this paper to show them that they have failed completely. FTA! O The opinions expressed in the articles in Sights represent o points of view of who have written ttem. opinion expressed in^this paper should t^tfcmght of as the views or^olicies of DoD, DA. or any other goyernmentl^gency. Sia- ilarly^the ^.ews and policies ff DoD, DA, or any other gaavrnoental agency shcAd not be understood to f*eResent the points of ^tow of 'Open Sights or any of^ts contribua <^ tors.
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Title | Open sights : by GI's for GI's |
Place of publication | Washington, D.C. |
Publisher | DMZ Collective |
Publication date | 1969-1972 |
Language | English |
Country | United States |
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Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Publication Date-Electronic | 2017 |
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Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
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Full text | \ OPEN SIGHTS BY GI'S FOR GI'S Free to G Is Others — .25 HÖ7T Feb. 1969 A beginning... Everywhere we go People want to know Who we are, where we come from So we tell them: This is the first issue of "Open Sights." It is written by GI's in the Washington area for GI's in the Washington area. If the civilians who read the paper don't understand some of the things we write about - the above cadence for instance - let them ask a GI for an explanation, or let them come in and find out what it's all about for themselves. We're against the war, and we don't like the brass too much either. Right now, we're an Army paper - at least everyone working on the paper is Army. We don't want to remain an Army paper. We know there are GI's in all the services who feel about the way we do about the war, and we'd like to get together with them and expand the paper into an all-services paper. We will have, in all future issues, a "Lette to the Editor" column entitled "Sound Off which will print letters on just about a topic you think would interest our reade The paper, as it stands right now, doesn't pretend to tepresent all the GI's in the DC area, or even all the antiwar GI's. There are unquestionably DC area GI's already organized into antiwar groups, and there are of course tens of thousands of GI's in the area who are against the war who haven't come into contact with groups of any kind. We want these people to get to know each other, to break out of their isolation. We hope this paper will help. One more thing - we're legal. We don't want anybody to do anything that will make it easy for the brass to hit him with the UCMJ. We do want GI's to be aware of their legal rights. We want GI's to know that the Constitution applies to us right now, just as it did before we came in. We have the same rights to a free press, free speech, and free assembly as we did as civilians. If we want to put out a paper, we can (and will), and if we want to exercise our right of free assembly by demonstrating against the war, we can and will. From the day we took that one step forward and said "Here, Sir" to the Induction Officer, they've done their damndest to f over our minds and we want this paper to show them that they have failed completely. FTA! O The opinions expressed in the articles in Sights represent o points of view of who have written ttem. opinion expressed in^this paper should t^tfcmght of as the views or^olicies of DoD, DA. or any other goyernmentl^gency. Sia- ilarly^the ^.ews and policies ff DoD, DA, or any other gaavrnoental agency shcAd not be understood to f*eResent the points of ^tow of 'Open Sights or any of^ts contribua <^ tors. |
Type | Text; Image |
Digital identifier | giNewsletter1001001 |