Hell No, We Won’t Go
December 6, 2014
On this date in 1967, in the midst of the Vietnam War, the chant “Hell no, we won’t go” was originated in New York City. Too bad every young man in America doesn’t shout this at the top of his lungs when asked if he would join the military and go to Iraq or Afghanistan. Instead, thousands volunteer every year to enlist. Most, I suspect, because they just need a job. Defending our freedoms has nothing to do with it.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
There’s Your New Boondoggle, America