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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!
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The opinions expressed
in the articles in
Sights represent o
points of view of
who have written ttem.
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