Toward an honest commemoration of the American War in Vietnam
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“I told my command officer that I wasn’t going to, I was refusing my orders to Vietnam … In his rage, he thought if he court-martialed me, he’d have to stay in the Army past his discharge date.”
This post originally appeared at www.e360.yale.edu. From 1962 to 1971, the American military sprayed vast areas of Vietnam with Agent Orange, leaving dioxin contamination that has severely affected the health of three generations of Vietnamese. Now, the U.S. and...
This article originally appeared on thenation.com. Fifty years after the first US troops came ashore at Da Nang, the Vietnamese are still coping with unexploded bombs and Agent Orange. By George Black On a mild, sunny morning last November, Chuck Searcy and I drove...
This post originally appeared at the aspeninstitute.org MARCH 26, 2019 • THE AGENT ORANGE IN VIETNAM PROGRAM On March 26th the governments of the United States of America and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, in partnership with the United States Institute of...
Ho Chi Minh City exhibition recalls how American GIs organized protests, published underground newspapers and served jail time in their efforts to bring peace to Southeast Asia.
Speech by John Catalinotto at an art installation in Manhattan on March 22 that exposed the U.S. war crime known as the My Lai massacre.
The Shelter Half was located near Fort Lewis, WA, where US Army soldier Deni Leonard was stationed. The coffeehouse was a base for him and others trying to end the war in Vietnam.
By Bill Ramsey. Norman Mailer dubbed us “armies of the night.” But I retreated before sunset to what I thought would be safer ground as our our protesting “armies” lit camp fires outside the Pentagon.
Photo: RENEW-NPA all-female field clearance team and four female ambassadors, front row (from left to right Deborah Paul, Canada; Wendy Matthews, New Zealand; Grete Løchen, Norway; and Beatrice Maser Mallor, Switzerland). Hai Lang, Quang Tri, May 9, 2019. © Hien Ngo /...
From 16 to 21 April 2019, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, the most senior member of the U.S. Congress, led an official bipartisan US Senate delegation of nine Senators to visit Vietnam during the Senate’s April recess.
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 — which is now approaching a series of 50th anniversary events. 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
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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… 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...
An inspiring new film about Vietnam veterans coming together to heal the wounds of war. About the Film A decade after the last American troops left South Vietnam, veterans of that divisive and brutal war were still not receiving the care and benefits they had earned....
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,...
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