Toward an honest commemoration of the American War in Vietnam
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“We Forced Them to Be Brutal to Us”
Book Review of “Dissenting POWs: From Vietnam’s Hoa Lo Prison to America Today,” Tom Wilber and Jerry Lembcke. Review by W.D. Ehrhart.
The Long Silence of Bao Ninh
Ninh, who will turn sixty-six this October, is Vietnam’s most celebrated writer, best-known for The Sorrow of War.
Vietnam: Big bombs in residential areas safely handled
by Vietnam+ Sappers of the Military High Command in the central province of Quang Tri in conjunction with the US’s Golden West organisation have successfully...
Companies producing Agent Orange still not held accountable
An interview with Chuck Searcy by Vietnam Times after a recent Agent Orange lawsuit was dismissed by a French court.
My dad criticized the Vietnam War while he was a POW
Most POWs who turned against the war felt they had to suppress their beliefs, worried that it would harm their careers, or, worse.
International Solidarity Rebuilt Postwar Vietnam
During the Vietnam War, the city of Vinh was almost destroyed by US bombing. Socialists around the world helped rebuild it.
The Interminable Search for US MIAs in Vietnam
The ongoing search for POWs who are figments of overactive political imaginations and the remains of relatively few US combatants.
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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LETTERS TO THE WALL Book Now Available
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 For Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson
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...
50 Years on the Frontlines: Phillip Jones Griffith Photographs
The Philip Jones Griffiths Foundation Presents: A one-page site containing background materials for the acclaimed show. Curated by George Carrano. Click to view more of Philip's photography.
Veterans for Peace Statement Opposing US Bombing of Iraq and Syria
Veterans know from first hand experience that you cannot bomb your way to peace. More bombing will ultimately mean more division, bloodshed, recruitment for extremist organizations, and a continual cycle of violent intervention. Veterans for Peace September 23, 2014 -...
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