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May 24, 2006
Retired Army Col. Charged With Sedition For Handing Flyer on Anti-War Vietnam Vets
By Amanda Lang
Ann Wright, a Retired Army Colonel and former U.S. diplomat, found herself handcuffed to chair inside the Fort McNair military base in Washington after being detained at the base. Her crime: passing out a flyer for the film ?Sir, No Sir: The Suppressed Story of the GI Movement to End the War In Vietnam.?
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Ann Wright, a Retired Army Colonel and former U.S. diplomat, found herself handcuffed to chair inside the Fort McNair military base in Washington after being detained at the base. Her crime: passing out a flyer for the film ?Sir, No Sir: The Suppressed Story of the GI Movement to End the War In Vietnam.?OpedNews volunteer from 2005 to 2013.
Amanda Lang was a wonderful member of the Opednews team, and the first volunteer editor, for a good number of years being a senior editor. She passed away summer 2014.