Toward an honest commemoration of the American War in Vietnam
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Biggest Vietnam War story that we don’t talk about
South Korea’s government is finally being held to account for the carnage its mercenary troops inflicted on Vietnamese civilians.
Henry A. Kissinger, Still a War Criminal
Even as a centenarian, his “relevancy” remains intact, and his influence, I’d argue, as malevolent as ever.
Daniel Ellsberg, from the NY Times Obituary
Ellsberg went to a War Resisters League meeting at Haverford College and was moved by an anti-draft speaker who was about to go to prison.
Making Art Out of Bombshells and Memories in Vietnam
Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s videos and sculptures uncover haunting artifacts and stories from the Vietnam War. They are coming to New York.
Daniel Ellsberg, American Hero (1931-2023)
Few have contributed as much to resisting the horrors of war and an undemocratic regime as Daniel Ellsberg, who died today at age 92.
Kissinger at 100: New War Crimes Revealed in Cambodia Bombing
New investigation reveals Henry Kissinger was responsible for even more civilian deaths in Cambodia than was previously known. Democracy Now!
Henry Kissinger Is a Disgusting War Criminal
It’s Henry Kissinger’s 100th birthday. The fact that this monster is celebrated instead of in jail tells you that there’s a bigger problem.
The Full Disclosure campaign is a Veterans For Peace effort to speak truth to power and keep alive the antiwar perspective on the American war in Viet Nam — with a series of 50th anniversary events now occurring. It represents a clear alternative to the Pentagon’s current efforts to sanitize and mythologize the Vietnam war and to thereby legitimize further unnecessary and destructive wars.
“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.”
— Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
Important
The US War in Vietnam: For High School Students
A film for high school students and teachers about the history of the Viet Nam War, composed of photographs from that war (45 min.).
Our “Anti-Warriors Chronology of the American War in Vietnam” updated
Complete with multiple perspectives, including that of the Vietnamese resistance, the anti war movement, and US servicemembers.
Agent Orange & UXO in Vietnam, VFP 2020 Nat’l Convention
Watch the full video presentations by Susan Schnall, Paul Cox, Namaya, Chuck Searcy, and Heather Bowser.
‘Da 5 Bloods’: Vietnamese Lives, American Imperialist Views
Viet Thanh Nguyen, NYT review: A lesser Spike Lee film whose characterizations of Vietnamese people are inextricable from its political failures.
“An Other War Memorial” asks “How do nations remember wars?”
Vietnamese writer Viet Thanh Nguyen (who we quote for this website’s tagline) has created, along with his students, a new website of peoples’ memories of the war.
Memorial Day 2019
PLEASE WRITE A LETTER TO THE VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL (THE WALL) When then-president Barack Obama announced his government was willing to spend $63 million on a series of commemorations of the American War in Viet Nam stretching over a decade, we in Veterans...
Second Volume of “Letters to the Wall” Now Available
Order via lulu.com The second volume has been put to print and will soon be available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. We have added a few new touches for this collection of letters delivered to The Wall in 2017 and 2018 — for one, we have provided detailed...
28-page Full Disclosure – Truth About America’s War in Vietnam Vol. 2
The paper is especially important in relation to the upcoming Burns/Novick documentary about the Vietnam War, which will not present the war as the massive U.S. crime based on lies and betrayals that it was. This paper clearly, definitively and very articulately,...
LETTERS TO THE WALL Book Now Available
A second edition of LETTERS TO THE WALL is now available at a 30% discount price. This edition includes two added features — an authors’ index and a reference index for names on The Wall that letter writers addressed. This book is made up of 187 or so letters written...
The US War in Vietnam: For High School Students
A film for high school students and teachers about the history of the Viet Nam War, composed of photographs from that war (45 min.).
Our “Anti-Warriors Chronology of the American War in Vietnam” updated
Complete with multiple perspectives, including that of the Vietnamese resistance, the anti war movement, and US servicemembers.
Agent Orange & UXO in Vietnam, VFP 2020 Nat’l Convention
Watch the full video presentations by Susan Schnall, Paul Cox, Namaya, Chuck Searcy, and Heather Bowser.
‘Da 5 Bloods’: Vietnamese Lives, American Imperialist Views
Viet Thanh Nguyen, NYT review: A lesser Spike Lee film whose characterizations of Vietnamese people are inextricable from its political failures.