Toward an honest commemoration of the American War in Vietnam
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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...
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...
The Battle Still Rages Over What Vietnam Means
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Tomgram: Jonathan Schell, Seeing the Reality of the Vietnam War, 50 Years Late
Originally posted by Jonathan Schell on TomDispatch.com [For TomDispatch Readers: Note that personalized, signed copies of Nick Turse’s stunning new...
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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“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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