Dan Ellsberg: A Personal Reflection

By W.D. Ehrhart. He risked life in prison to make those documents public. He became a hero of mine and has inspired me ever since.

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David Harris, Leader of Vietnam Draft Resistance Movement, Dies at 76

An activist who went to jail for refusing to serve in the military, he teamed with and married Joan Baez and later became a journalist.

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Teaching Guide to “The Most Dangerous Man in America”

Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers film: A teaching guide for middle school, high school, and college classrooms.

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Donald Sanders Luce (1934-2022): Exposed the Truth About the Tiger Cages

Don Luce, who passed away on November 17, 2022, at the age of 88, was a kindred spirit and one of my heroes on a decidedly short list.

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Commemorating the 287 victims of the 1972 Christmas bombing

Ceremony to commemorate 287 people on Kham Thien Street killed in the carpet bombing of a B52 plane 50 years ago, December 26, 1972.

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For Patrick Leahy, The Vietnam War Is Finally Ending

For 33 years, the retiring senator has worked to bind the many wounds of a war that touched the lives of nearly every Vietnamese family.

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Toward an honest commemoration of the American War in Vietnam

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November 18, 2013

Anti-War Essay/Commentary

By Clare Hanrahan “The time for dissent is passed once the war is declared,” one Asheville resident recently wrote to a local paper. He echoed a sentiment of...

Agent Orange and the Continuing Vietnam War

August 20, 2013

Agent Orange and the Continuing Vietnam War

Originally published on Blackvoicenews.com by Bill Fletcher, Jr. (NNPA) In a 2009 visit to Vietnam I asked a retired colonel in the Vietnam People’s Army...

May 24, 2013

Memorial Day: Remembrance and Resolve

Originally published on The Huffington Post by Jack Rothman. Memorial Day is upon us. Neighbors are hanging flags in front of their homes. Parades are planned...

June 21, 2012

The Vietnam War and the Struggle For Truth

by:  John Grant Vietnam, a story of virtually unmitigated disasters that we have inflicted on ourselves and even more on others. -Bernard Brodie, 1973 The...

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

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