November 15, 2019, marks the 50th anniversary of the largest antiwar demonstration in American history: a massive protest march in Washington, D.C.

During the Vietnam War, roughly one in five GIs actively opposed the conflict. Many servicemen and women came to believe they were not liberating the country from communism but acting as agents of tyranny. In the combat zone, they rebelled against their commanders' orders. At home, they staged massive protests.

"Soldiers for Peace" offers a first-person look at how GIs were transformed by Vietnam, and the strategies veterans and active-duty personnel used to bring the war to an end. The program upends enduring myths about the anti-war movement. It reveals that GIs and veterans worked closely with civilian peace activists, and that in protesting the war they held dearly to American ideals of freedom and democracy — the very same ones they thought they'd be fighting for in Vietnam.

 Airs Monday, November 11 at 8 pm on 93.9 FM.