Excerpt from a statement on behalf of Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Delivered to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations, April 23, 1971
Reprinted from "Takin' It to the Streets": A Sixties Reader, published in 2003; also available at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resourc...

"We who have come here to Washington have come here because we feel we have to be winter soldiers now. We could come back to this country, we could be quiet, we could hold our silence, we could not tell what went on in Vietnam, but we feel because of what threatens this country…that we have to speak out.…"

By the late 1960s there were many groups speaking out against the Vietnam War, but few did so with as much authority as a group known...