Pages

0

Media Type

Moving Image

Credit

New Pacific Productions

Physical Location

Stacks D024.3H

Copyright Statement

Jack Ofield

Number of Media

1

Language(s)

English

Format

DVD

Digitized in HD?

No

General Note

Combat veterans of the Vietnam War report it as they experienced it. On September 4, 1970, a large group of Vietnam combat veterans began a four-day 100-mile march from Morristown, New Jersey to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to protest U. S. war policies in Southeast Asia. They wore their battle attire and carried plastic M-16's. In towns en route they re-enacted their own brutal treatment of Vietnamese civilians through frightening simulations of harassment and interrogation. Along the march route they encountered outspoken spectators and counter-demonstrations, and slept in fields loaned by farmers and Quaker groups. They talked of their war experiences and why they had been driven to speak out as 'different sons'. On the fourth day, they gathered with amputees from the Valley Forge Army Hospital and thousands of sympathizers at a final ceremony in which they broke their guns in half and changed 'Peace, Now!' The nonprofit film was independently produced by Bowling Green Films, Inc., with the assistance of many volunteer professionals and companies in New York Film Industry For Peace. The film debuted at the Museum of Modern Art and was widely seen in film festivals in the U. S. and Europe, by fraternal, labor, church, and military organizations, as well as on college campuses and public and cable television stations. The film was written and directed by Jack Ofield, and produced by Jack Ofield and Robert J. Sann.