Welcome back to part two of our mini-series on Opposition to the Vietnam War in the US.

If you haven't listened to part one, I would go back and listen to that first.

As a content note, this episode contains mention of sexual violence.

While nowadays many people believe myths about soldiers being spat on, etc., in fact, building solidarity with U.S. service personnel was a central part of the anti-war movement.

Cora Weiss explains more about how this happened in the U.S. mainland.

Well, there was an organization called USSF, United States Servicemen Fund, I think.

And I don't have files and notes in front of me.

There was a campaign to send entertainers to the bases in the United States where they were training.

And the entertainers were, of course, all anti-war people,

and they would sing songs against the war.

I ain't marching anymore by Phil Oaks, for example.

So that was one thing that happened.

They were sent to coffee houses, that's what it was.

They established coffee houses at the bases where soldiers could come and learn about the war

and be entertained by mostly folk musicians.

Our podcast episodes 10 and 11 are about the resistance to the war in the military itself,

where we also go into more detail about the spitting myths. In the bonus audio to this episode for our Patreon supporters, we also include

an interview with another Vietnam veteran, Leila Nabinski, of the 101st Airborne Division,

about his experiences of anti-war activism. As Vivian explains, there were a myriad of other tactics

used to oppose the war. You know, every church had a

peace committee. There were vigils against the war everywhere. There was a whole campaign,

the government, because they couldn't get the Congress to allocate money for this war, because

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