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Sent my check last week. These guys do essential work. 

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        UUUMilitary Resistance: HUHUHUthomasfbarton at earthlink.net UUU1,20.13 UUUPrint it out: color best.  Pass it on. 

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  To: XXXX
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  On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Thomas F Barton wrote:

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  To: Thomas F Barton 
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  Actually surfing the net for info on SGT Kyle McClain of the 1433rd/507th ENG BN, he was serving along side with my soldier and died Aug 1st 2012. 

  Regrettably, information from the FRG doesn't come timely or is non-existent, so I have to seek on my own. 

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  #2

  From: Lisa S
  To: Military Resistance Newsletter
  Subject: Re: Military Resistance 10L6: Scum
  Date: Dec 12, 2012 5:22 AM

  Have I thanked you lately for your excellent digest of news I really care about? 

  I can't tell you how many people I have recommended your publication to, and I realize it is about time for me to print one out again and give it to an influential teenager to share with peers.

  Best regards,
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  #3

  From: Don Bacon, [LTC, US Army (Ret), Vietnam & Smedley Butler Society] HHHUUUhttp://www.warisaracket.org/UUUHHH  
  To: Thomas Barton 
  Subject: Donation [Excerpts]
  Date: Dec 14, 2011 11:26 PM

  I gladly sent you a donation again. 

  You are the charity that keeps on giving. 

  It seems like eight or ten years now, back when you had the website, back when we expected we could stop the wars, back when we had no idea that it would be this difficult, back when I first wondered how you could possibly carry on with this effort in your spare time after your day job, and here you are still being the foremost voice for peace in the country. 

  There is none better.

  I volunteered for Vietnam when I was a young man. 

  Back in the sixties there were hawks and there were doves, and I was hawk, young and clueless. 

  I learned quickly, and came back a dove.  The popular saying then, before most of your readers were born probably, was "love it or leave it."  Well there were some of us who loved it (America) and chose not to leave it. 

  I was a dove in uniform, but I had my "tickets punched" and it worked. The hawks need us to keep them informed on the truth, which is what you do too.

  General Butler's words still ring true today: "War is a racket. . .the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."

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  Best regards,
  Don

  #4

  From: Judith K
  To: Thomas F Barton 
  Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 11:11 AM
  Subject: Re: Military Resistance 10J6: Death By Foot Patrol

  My deepest respect for keeping this wonderful newsletter going into the latest round of class wars and imperial interference into the Middle-East...

  #5

  From: L 
  To: David McReynolds 
  Cc: Thomas F Barton 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 3:43 PM
  Subject: Re: Military Resistance 10J16: "A Travesty"

  This is a particularly awesome issue.  

  I much appreciate the reference to Dr. Cortright’s book Soldiers in Revolt.  Had never heard of it before.

  Why Military Resistance Newsletter Needs Funding Now

  Doing everything possible to encourage military resistance to Imperial war has never been more important!

  One example: increasing numbers of readers of this Newsletter on active duty in Afghanistan who have signed up in the last six months are not exactly flooded with alternative sources of information, are they?

  We don’t hit on you more than twice a year [last Raffle Summer 2012], but Imperial war isn’t happening only twice a year.

  Your Support Is Used For: 

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  4.  Computer technician on call who solves the crippling problems that come up in maintaining the platform that makes Military Resistance Newsletter possible.  He gives Military Resistance a significant break on fees, but costs mount up.

  5.  Rental of a high security mail drop that allows anybody in the armed services to address mail to Military Resistance anyway they want, provided the Box # is correct:  

  6.  Postage, office supplies, printer paper & ink and on.

  7.  Travel to visit a brother in the cause imprisoned in an isolated rural wasteland.

  Along with other expenses too numerous to mention, this comes to well over $4300 per year, and no, we get no grants from DoD and/or Homeland Security.  

  Your back-up for the cause is respectfully and urgently requested now.

  Thomas F Barton,
  Military Resistance Newsletter

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  Ramparts Magazine: 
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  The Battle Of Berkeley: August 1969 

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  Prize #4:  Super Rare Book 
  The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
  Signed and dedicated by author Truman Nelson “To Judy” “For Freedom Now  1966”
  GARRISON PRESS/ NEWBURYPORT , MASS. 1965 (1965)

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  From Both Sides Now:
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  Edited By Philip Mahony

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  [Thanks to Greg Shotwell for contributing to fund drive.]

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  May 1917: Russia
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  In February 1917, Russian workers and soldiers rose in revolution to overthrow a feudal government that had dragged them into an Imperial War, World War 1, where Russians died, 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 Minister Kerensky, 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 workers’ councils organized a second revolution that wiped Kerensky’s 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 1000 gold rubles. 

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

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  Vietnam GI: Complete 

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

  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 the chain of command.  

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

  VIETNAM GI
  August 1969

  Many good men never came back from Nam.  Some came back disabled in mind. Jeff Sharlet came back a pretty together cat—and he came back angry.  Jeff started VGI, and for almost two years poured his life into it, in an endless succession of 18-hour days trying 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 a sudden heart failure, brought on by the uncontrollable growth of the cancer that had earlier 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 seeing Europe, he applied for “translator-interpreter”, and found himself at the US Army Language School at Monterey, California. But instead of French, Czech or German, he was assigned a strange language called “Vietnamese”--. Spoken in a country he couldn’t even find on the map.  For eleven months in 1962 he was drilled in Vietnamese.

  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 Saigon dictator Ngo Diem.  

  On his second tour his ASA unit was stationed near Phu Bai. Engaged in top-secret work monitoring, decoding and translating North Vietnamese radio messages, they wore AF 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 their mission.

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

  He spent long hours questioning ex-Foreign Legion men, who’d settled in Vietnam after the French left, peasants, ARVN officers, students, and even suspected VC agents.  By the 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 Indiana University in 1967.  

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

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

  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 the brass.  Jeff had won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for graduate study at the University of Chicago. 

  He enrolled and” picked up his check.  From then on all his time and money were sunk 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’t there.  

  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 flew home 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 the growth of his cancer.  

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

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

  Jeff was a truly rare man.  

  He was our friend and comrade, and those of us who came together in this fight will never forget him.  VGI, the paper that so many readers called “the truth paper,” will go on fighting.

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

  Because most readers have come on within the last four years, many people have never seen early GI Specials.

  None in these prizes will be more recent than 2004.  

  A slice of history.

  [Example of front page:]

  GI Special:   UUUHHHUUUthomasfbarton at earthlink.netUUUHHH     4.27.04                      Print it out (color best).  Pass it on.

  GI SPECIAL 2#67

  WELCOME TO IRAQ--

  HAVE A NICE DAY

  Call To Organize From Iraq Vet:
  “Together We Can End This 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 you don'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 much choice. I knew that as soon as I left the Middle East I would make my feelings known and that is something I have done.

  All of us, veterans, reservists, National Guard and active duty, can side with Military Families Speak Out, Veterans For Peace, and other folks standing up to stop the senseless killing of Americans and Iraqis.  Those of us with direct experience in this disastrous occupation need to make our voices heard.  

  Michael Hoffman 
  Veteran, USMC 2nd Marine division, Artillery 
  Served with 1st Marine Division in 2003 invasion of Iraq
  Contact Michael at iraqvet at mail.com with questions or to join the cause.

  [END PRIZES]

  If printed out, this newsletter is your personal property and cannot legally be confiscated from you.  “Possession of unauthorized material may not be prohibited.”  DoD Directive 1325.6 Section 3.5.1.2. 

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