SIR!  NO SIR! -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY

Vietnam Veterans Against the War ...

held an unprecedented investigation that exposed a much deeper truth.

JOE BANGERT, U.S. MARINES: I think the Winter Soldier Investigation was to try to point out -- it wasn't really in defense of Calley -- but it was going after the notion that the policies of the U.S. Military created things like My Lai. Okay?

That it was a policy. It was both a written and an unwritten policy.

And the truth has to be told. You can't duck away from the truth.

You can't lie and put up a smokescreen and say, "Oh" -- this was the words they used back then -- "an isolated instance of aberrant behavior."

JOE URGO, U.S. AIR FORCE: You weren't just coming home saying, "I'm against the war." You're saying, "This is what we did. This is how we did it. This was a crime. This was wrong." It helped people to really cross the bridge and to see us in a way that I think the anti-war movement had not seen GIs before.

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