Vietnam Vets Will Be Active Participants In May Day Docks Antiwar Protest

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/8425

Vietnam Vets Will Be Active Participants In May Day Docks Antiwar Protest - 04/29/08

By Doug Cunningham

: 'ILWU moves cargo – the boxes. Well I told them I was tired of bringing boxes home with bodies in ‘em. It’s time to speak up for what’s right."

Vietnam vet and ILWU Local 10 member Steve Fyten; he's one of the west coast dock workers who will stop work on May 1st to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

: "I am patriotic, but I’m patriotic to do the right thing. Bein’ patriotic doesn’t mean that you support a war that’s not right. Our sons and daughters are gettin’ killed over there. That’s not being patriotic. I think bein’ patritotic is when you stand up and say what’s right.”