Toward an honest commemoration of the American War in Vietnam
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Robert McNamara as a loving father — who couldn’t talk about Vietnam
That Craig McNamara has survived, and thrived, and given us this staggering book, is something of a miracle.
Ukrainian left urges support for Ukrainian resistance
But count on Washington to interpret the Russia-Ukraine War as an imperative of militant American globalism.
Craig McNamara reflects on being son of Vietnam War architect
“Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today” reckons with the tolls of decisions and responsibility.
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.).
Paul Krassner, Anarchist, Yippies Founder, Remembered
His circle included Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. Founder of the The Realist, he was called the “father of the underground press”.
“Nothing is Impossible” Finds It Impossible to Tell the Truth About Vietnam
Thoughts on “Nothing is Impossible: America’s Reconciliation with Vietnam” by Ted Osius, US ambassador to Vietnam, 2014-2017.
Ukraine: Dilemmas for the Progressive Left Movement
Opposing Russian imperialism should go along with opposition to US interventions, and its hundreds of military bases, internationally.
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.
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“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.
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