Vietnam Full Disclosure ~ Honest Commemoration of US War in Vietnam

Bob Meola, Lifelong Advocate for War Resisters (1952-2021)

Robert “Bob” Meola was a leader of Students for a Democratic Society at MSU during the Vietnam War and committed his life to anti-militarism.

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Patrick Leahy’s full-circle moment caps a half-century political career

In 1974, Patrick Leahy entered the Montpelier Statehouse as a 33-year-old insurgent with the seemingly impossible dream.

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Podcast: “The common thing is that no one wants war” – Col. Ann Wright (ret.)

“You are doing the right thing because this is going to be horrible for the people of Iraq, but it’s going to be horrible for the United States, too.”

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The Legacy of Colin Powell, and the Legacy of Vietnam

Colin Powell was not only exposed to the defoliants; he directly accompanied the unit of South Vietnamese soldiers who were spraying them.

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The Magic & Sorrow of Vietnam’s Côn Sơn Island

Their tormentors routinely poked sticks through the bars, beat the prisoners, threw lime on their open wounds, and urinated on them.

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The Women Who Won the Vietnam War

The fighting women of North and South Vietnam played a key military role in defending their families, land, and country.

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Toward an honest commemoration of the American War in Vietnam

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July 10, 2021

Richard C. Lewontin, Anti-Racist and Anti-War Geneticist, Dies at 92

He demonstrated that differences in DNA between groups of people were far smaller than originally believed.

July 7, 2021

Vietnam, US cooperate in war legacy relief

Deputy Defense Minister of Vietnam received Paul Cheremeteff Grove, Senior Assistant to US Senator Patrick Leahy.

July 1, 2021

Revealing the Pentagon Papers in Congress — 8: Why Gravel Did It

A look at the significance of Mike Gravel reading the Pentagon Papers in Congress. The eighth and final part of this series.

July 1, 2021

Revealing the Pentagon Papers in Congress — 7: The Verdict

Supreme Court delivers its verdict in the case of Gravel v. the United States. “We were only saved by the gravity of Nixon’s crimes.”

July 1, 2021

Revealing the Pentagon Papers in Congress — 6: To the Supreme Court

Sen. Mike Gravel takes his case against President Richard Nixon to the U.S. Supreme Court, where Nixon has also sued Gravel.

July 1, 2021

Revealing the Pentagon Papers in Congress — 5: Capitol Hill to Beacon Hill

Sen. Mike Gravel made the risky move to have the Pentagon Papers published outside Congress at Beacon Press in Boston.

July 1, 2021

Revealing the Pentagon Papers in Congress — 4: A Pyrrhic Victory

The Supreme Court decision NYT v. the US left Sen. Gravel in more legal peril as he contemplates publishing the Papers outside of Congress.

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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