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This piece by Rory Fanning, a veteran twice deployed to Afghanistan with the 2nd Army Ranger Battalion over a decade ago, was first published January 7, 2020 by Truthout. What will happen next? It’s a question that has been
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INTRODUCTION by Dan Shea, Vietnam Veteran, Member of Veterans For Peace Chapter 72 in Portland, Oregon: STEW ALBERT (12/4/39 – 1/30/06) was a friend of mine. I see him as an historical figure. Stew was a member of the
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In this op-ed, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about how the show’s handling of the American war in Vietnam and its Vietnamese characters reveal a failure to address the racist underpinnings of imperialism. Published December 18,
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by Peyton Hart November 11, 2019 WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Not only is this a great song by Edwin Starr, it is also a train of thought that many people share and believe in. Some of these people include MLK,
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by Miranda Smith, November 15, 2019 It is not without reason that some therapists recommend patients suffering from emotional trauma to express their thoughts and feelings in the form of writing. Some of the most expressive,
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A stylish new audio documentary about GI resistance during the ’60s and ’70s produced by Kate Ellis and Stephen Smith, is online at APM Reports “Opposition to the Vietnam War among active duty GIs and veterans
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This Veterans Day essay was published online at NBC News/Think on Nov. 11, 2019. PHOTO CAPTION: Danny Lane and Sotere Karas man a foxhole on Firebase Tomahawk on Marine Operation Taylor Common February 1969. Photo by Danny Lane,
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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
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On July 16, 2019, New Hampshire Congresswoman Ann McLane Kuster announced her office’s participation in the Vietnam Veterans 50th Anniversary Pin Program to honor all Vietnam-era veterans for “valiantly serving our
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Paul Cox: My long-ago-purchased DVD’s came today and being the short-attention-span person I am, I plopped in Episode 10 to see how it all ended. I won’t spoil it all for you, since I know that many of you are enjoying the
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Doug Rawlings: EPISODE NINE A DISRESPECTFUL LOYALTY MAY 1970 TO AUGUST 1973 We have reached the penultimate evening of what has become a ten round bout pitting character against character in the story of America. More than one
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Doug Rawlings: EPISODE EIGHT: April 1969 to May 1970 “THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD” AS OF APRIL, 1969 THERE ARE 543,482 AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN COUNTRY. 40,794 DEAD AMERICAN SOLDIERS TO DATE Silence. That’s the overriding theme of
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Howie Machtinger: Episode 7: The Veneer of Civilization: The question of troop morale haunts this segment, but B/N’s picture isn’t entirely coherent. At several points it touts the morale of the US soldiers.
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Photo: Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library Audiovisual Archives/PBS Doug Rawlings: EPISODE SIX “Things Fall Apart” 485,600 American troops in Vietnam at the beginning of 1968; 510,000 at its close. As any American veteran
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Doug Rawlings: “This Is War. This Is What We Do.” This nightly trek to the TV screen is getting exhausting. Of course this medium that we have allowed into our homes these past five evenings, that we have chosen to bring
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Howie M. What haunts this episode and the entire documentary is the failure to make a distinction among fundamentally different critiques of the war: (a) The war was morally wrong, an unjust invasion, a colonial or neocolonial
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Mike Ferner: “Take this here rifle and a helmet and go kill some Commies for Christ.” That is the perverted, obscene way that our government and culture twist the good-hearted intentions of young people who so
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Episode 2 Reflections: Tarak Kauff: May I say for the record, it was not just that the people in high places knew the war was “unwinnable” – that was secondary, it was much worse than that, they also knew (from the
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Paul Cox: If I may rant for a moment. Karl Marlantes is a good enough guy and wrote the best battle book he was capable of in The Matterhorn, but he ain’t no expert on Vietnam (or on humans and war, as a quick read of
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