Toward an honest commemoration of the American War in Vietnam
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WHEEL DREAMS
by Doug Rawlings “If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face…” --...
TO THE GRADUATING CLASS OF 2013
By Doug Rawlings If they got you thinking about signing up just to kill you some time (since nothing else is going down) you better be getting ready to...
GIVING SILENCE
For My Son Josh and His Best Friend David turning thirteen By Doug Rawlings If 'namvets were ancient shamans now would be the moment we’d choose to...
NUMBER 7
by Doug Rawlings, VFP I was a Good Humor Man. Lost my job Got drafted I can never go back again Lost my Good Humor Lost $80.00 a week Can never Have it again...
NOVEMBER COMES
by Doug Rawlings November comes on to me like a C-130 slinking into Dover Air Force base laden with tin caskets draped in red, white, and blue I know I...
Vietnam’s Photographic History, Told by the Winners
Originally published on the New York Times by James Estrin Patrick Chauvel was an 18-year-old rookie photographer looking for adventure and a chance to...
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.
“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
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