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  • Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

  • This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.

  • We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

  • I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

  • Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.

  • American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

  • Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

  • Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.

  • It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.

  • Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement.

  • Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

  • I had to do something for the country.

  • How are you, G.I. Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die.

  • There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

  • I put my heart in my work.

  • Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

  • And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

  • I would like to see America some day.

  • And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.

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