Michael Uhl is a Vietnam veteran antiwar activist, critic and independent scholar, born April 14, 1944, who grew up in Babylon, Long Island, New York. He graduated with a BS in Theoretical Linguists from the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Georgetown University.
In the Army, Uhl received training at the Infantry Officers School, Fort Benning, Georgia and the elite Counter Intelligence School, Fort Holabird, Maryland. He served in Vietnam during 1968-69 as a first lieutenant, where he led a combat intelligence team with the 11th Infantry Brigade.
In 1970, Uhl testified at the International Enquiry on US
War Crimes in Stockholm, Sweden, and in 1971, he was called to testify before a
US Congressional subcommittee investigating the CIA's Phoenix assassination
program in Vietnam. Also in 1971 he toured Australia and New Zealand as a
representative of the US anti-Vietnam War movement. That same year he
co-founded The Safe Return Amnesty Committee advocating for a universal amnesty
on behalf of Vietnam era military deserters.
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