Founding member of Appeal for Redress
Enlisted Navy Petty Officer and founding member of the Appeal for Redress, an initiative seeking to mobilize active duty members in a call for the return of troops
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Jon Hutto
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FROM Jon Hutto
To the Point
Active-Duty Soldiers Petition for Return of US Troops In 1969, almost 1400 active-duty service members signed a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for an end to the Vietnam War. Their strategy was resistance and confrontation. The latest Nation magazine reports on "the most significant movement of organized and dissident GI's in America" since those days.
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