Vietnam Full Disclosure

Name: Commemorating Violent Conflicts and Building Sustainable Peace
Start: 2019-10-24T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2019-10-26T23:59:59+00:00
Location: Kent State University

Podcast: “I just couldn’t have any part of it” – Bob Musil, former Army Captain

"Over 4,000 junior officers ... brought suit against the Secretary of Defense for war crimes, who carried out demonstrations, who were quite active in their opposition."

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Resistance stories get play on NYC television

Ron Carver, co-editor with David Cortright and Barbara Doherty of the book, Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and...

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Podcast: “All I did was open my mouth,” Ahmad Daniels sentenced to a decade in military prison

US Marine Ahmad Daniels was sentenced to a decade in prison for speaking to other servicemen about the injustices he saw and questioning military authority.

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Podcast: Al Glatkowski’s anti-war high seas mutiny aboard the SS Columbia Eagle

Al Glatkowski for the very first time explains how and why he helped seize a US naval ship transporting napalm for the Vietnam War.

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Victims Left Behind in US Agent Orange Cleanup Efforts

Vietnamese victims have yet to receive compensation – and many live in desperate poverty. PHOTO: Many Vietnamese...

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VFP honored by Vietnam Union of Friendship Orgs in Hanoi

As reported by the Vietnam News Agency on Monday, September 9, 2019. Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam Union of Friendship...

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Toward an honest commemoration of the American War in Vietnam

Podcast: “I just couldn’t have any part of it” – Bob Musil, former Army Captain

October 23, 2019

“Over 4,000 junior officers … brought suit against the Secretary of Defense for war crimes, who carried out demonstrations, who were quite active in their opposition.”

Resistance stories get play on NYC television

October 22, 2019

Ron Carver, co-editor with David Cortright and Barbara Doherty of the book, Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans who Opposed the War (New Village Press, Sept. 2019), and creator of the Waging Peace in Vietnam exhibit, reports that, since making a big...

Podcast: “All I did was open my mouth,” Ahmad Daniels sentenced to a decade in military prison

October 17, 2019

US Marine Ahmad Daniels was sentenced to a decade in prison for speaking to other servicemen about the injustices he saw and questioning military authority.

Podcast: Al Glatkowski’s anti-war high seas mutiny aboard the SS Columbia Eagle

October 7, 2019

Al Glatkowski for the very first time explains how and why he helped seize a US naval ship transporting napalm for the Vietnam War.

Preparing for Spring: Kent State / Jackson State / National Student Strike

October 7, 2019

Excerpted from the October 45th Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee’s e-newsletter sent by John McAuliff, VPCC Committee member Kent State University has a year long program of events culminating with the fiftieth commemoration on Monday, May 4, 2020 at 12:00...

The Vietnam War: A Conversation

October 5, 2019

Aired October 2, 2017 OPB | “Think Out Loud” Host: David Miller Guests: Dan Shea & Kim Truong-Pham Clip: Season 12 Episode 1 | 29m 7s The “Oregon Experience” documentary, “The Vietnam War Oregon Remembers,” explores the many ways Oregonians were...

Victims Left Behind in US Agent Orange Cleanup Efforts

October 4, 2019

Vietnamese victims have yet to receive compensation – and many live in desperate poverty. PHOTO: Many Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange wind up being cared for in orphanages. The kids in this photo live in an orphanage located in the Ba Vi district of Hanoi, Viet...

VFP honored by Vietnam Union of Friendship Orgs in Hanoi

September 13, 2019

As reported by the Vietnam News Agency on Monday, September 9, 2019. Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) presented a certificate of merit to Veterans for Peace (VFP) at a roundtable seminar in Hanoi on September 9. The VUFO also...

Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit: UMass Boston reception

September 13, 2019

Ron Carver’s Waging Peace in Viet Nam exhibit opened yesterday at UMass Boston. The opening reception was graced with poets Doug Rawlings, Dave Connolly, and Lamont Steptoe, and Vietnam-era resister Susan Schnall.

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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50 Years of GI Resistance, In and Out of Uniform

2019 is the year that we acknowledge and honor the courage, sacrifice, and moral strength of those who resisted.

Original Podcasts

Produced by Courage to Resist in collaboration with the Vietnam Full Disclosure effort of Veterans For Peace.

On the Burns/Novick PBS Documentary

Critical responses to the 10-part PBS series by Ken Burns, The Vietnam War (2018)

Philip Jones Griffith's Viet Nam

Highly recommended photo exhibit available to local community arts centers, galleries and schools.

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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

Memorial Day 2019

March 20, 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

August 16, 2018

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

August 20, 2017

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,...

New CD Release “Until You Come Home: Songs to Heal the Wounds of War”

December 9, 2016

This post originally appeared at www.untilyoucomehome.org New CD Release: “Until You Come Home: Songs to Heal the Wounds of War” A compilation CD about war and its toll produced by George Mann. George Mann announces the release of “Until You Come Home: Songs to Heal...

LETTERS TO THE WALL Book Now Available

September 18, 2016

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...

Paying The Price For Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson

September 16, 2016

Paying the Price… Vietnam Veteran S. Brian Willson paid the price for peace by nearly being killed by a military train during a non-violent protest. Since then, he has not stopped calling attention to the US government’s defiance of international law through waging...

Chickenhawk Hall of Shame

February 18, 2015

This originally appeared at The New Hampshire Gazette. Chickenhawk Hall of Shame When an American male (or an especially belligerent female) makes the challenging transition from late adolescence into early adulthood, he is faced with many decisions. One certain,...

Hey, Buddy, Wanna Buy A Used War? by Lawrence Reichard

February 17, 2015

Hey, Buddy, Wanna Buy A Used War? I was raised by two historians. My father had a Harvard PhD in history and was a history professor, and my mother was ABD (all but dissertation) in history from Johns Hopkins. History was a conversational mainstay at our family dinner...