Toward an honest commemoration of the American War in Vietnam
“I was a coward, not for leaving the war, but for having been a part of it in the first place. I failed to fulfill my moral duty as a human being, and instead I chose to fulfill my duty as a soldier…. I am confined to a prison, but I feel, today more than ever,...
Photo: John Olson’s famous photo of wounded Marines being evacuated during the Battle of Hue in February 1968. John Olson/The LIFE Images Collection, via Getty Images This post originally appeared at the nytimes.com. A celebrated book and a major museum exhibition...
Renewing Resistance in 2019 & Moving Forward. Select films, readings, books, websites, and music that tell the stories of 50 years of GI resistance.
This article originally appeared at alternet.org. By Robert Scheer In conversation with Robert Scheer, veterans Ron Kovic and Maj. Danny Sjursen trace the United States’ violent trajectory since the Vietnam War. American soldiers born decades apart in the state...
Photo: A clergyman joining those burning draft cards at Arlington Street Church in Boston, October 1967. Joe Runci/The Boston Globe, via Getty Images This article originally appeared at the nytimes.com. By Michael Stewart Foley On Monday, Oct. 16, 1967, Americans...
Photo: The Harvey Richards Media Archive This article originally appeared at apjjf.org By Jerry Lembcke Recovering the history of in-service dissent during the war in Vietnam is of utmost importance. Recognition of that dissent is essential to our documentation of the...
Photo: Sonny Ross for The Washington Post. This article originally appeared at thewashingtonpost.com. By Philip Kennicott, Art and architecture critic The Vietnam War, which tore this country apart and forever changed its politics and culture, has never been the...
By David Cortright One of the least known but most important chapters in the history of America’s encounter with Vietnam was the internal rebellion that wracked the U.S. military. From the Long Binh jail in Vietnam, to Travis Air Force Base in California, to aircraft...
This post originally appeared at warbirdforum.com. Photo Credit: Rafal Olkis | Shutterstock.com By Col. Robert D. Heinl, Jr. Armed Forces Journal, 7 June 1971 (This copyrighted material is posted as a public service for its educational value) The morale, discipline...
This post originally appeared at the nytimes.com. Photo: Outside the Pentagon during the 1967 demonstrations. Credit Associated Press By Sherwood Rudin October 1967 was a time of simmering hostilities in the United States on two momentous sociopolitical fronts:...
A Guide to Web Sites This web site complements an offline annotated bibliography project underway since January 2000. A September 2014 major revision reorganizes the material and verifies all links. The previous version (with no updating or further maintenance) will...
An investigative report obtained by The Times reveals new details about one of the Vietnam War’s worst friendly-fire incidents. Photo: Paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade filing past bodies of fellow soldiers killed in the Battle of Dak To. Credit Al...
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...
Our Memorial Day project continues as 2018 unfolds. In terms of the American War in Viet Nam, this year looms large — fifty years ago the Tet Offensive exploded; the infamous My Lai massacre took its devastating toll; Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated;...
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,...
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.
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