Below are pictures of the VFP ad in Variety magazine. The placement in the magazine was optimum. A big step forward for VFP and truth. Tens of thousands of people will see this. Thank all of you who donated and thanks to VFP National for doing their part to make this happen.
VFP Los Angeles members of Chapter 007 met in North Hollywood at the Saban Media Center Television Academy 5210 Lankershim Blvd. North Hollywood, CA 91601
Interfaith Communities United for Justice & Peace (ICUJP) and Veterans for Peace, Los Angeles mustered an Informational PICKET at the Television Academy (to prevent the next war).
NO EMMYS For KEN BURNS and the twisted history in his PBS series “THE VIETNAM WAR” Ken Burns and co-director Lynn Novick, side with the Pentagon and smear the peace movement.
VFP 007 members in attendance: Viet Nam veterans Chapter president Michael Lindley, Andrew Nisbet, Larry Abbott, along with associate member Kathleen Hernandez, ICUJP actor Dave Clennon, and 350.org member Marian Gordon (wife of Larry Abbott)
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Troy Heikkala on July 31, 2018 at 1:25 pm
This is an excellent and correct article. I hope it’s message is heeded. From another veteran of that American war on Vietnam
For those who lived through that war, are you going to believe your lying eyes and ears, or are you going to believe the “official” history of the war? For those who didn’t live through that period, we veterans are against rewarding Burns and Novick for a false narrative. You should be too.
Toward an honest commemoration of the American War in Vietnam
Mission statement
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 — which is being commemorated during this decade with a series of 50th anniversary events. Full Disclosure represents a clear alternative to the Pentagon’s current efforts to sanitize and mythologize that war, and to thereby legitimize further unnecessary and destructive wars.
January – Committee of Liaison, chaired by antiwar activists Dave Dellinger and Cora Weiss, is established as an intermediary between American POWs held in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) and their families. Its goal was ”to facilitate communicate communication between American servicemen held in North Vietnam and their families” and to “try to find out if your relative is a prisoner in North Vietnam.” By midsummer, a confirmed list of 335 POWs would be established along with a flow of correspondence. A Citizens Committee of inquiry on U.S. War Crimes in Vietnam (CCI) is established to conduct a series of hearings in 14 cities.
January-May 26 – Operation Menu – the code name for a secret bombing of Laos and Cambodia by the U.S. Strategic Air Command continues (See entries for March 18 and May 31 in 1969 chronology).
January 5 – Eighty GIs join GIs for Peace to picket General Westmoreland at Fort Bliss, Texas.
January 15-20 Gallup poll 57% of Americans see Vietnam war as a mistake, but another January poll shows 65% approving of Nixon’s handling of the war.
January 21 – The Shelter Half, ASU (American Serviceman’s Union), SDS, and other antiwar activists hold a “Trial of the Army” at the University of Washington’s HUB ballroom to put the Army, not the Shelter Half, on trial for genocide.
January 22 – In his State of the Union speech, Nixon announces that the end of the war in Vietnam is a major goal of U.S. policy. Though peace talks have reached an impasse, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that Vietnamization is working and that there will be further troop withdrawals.
2016 National Book Award Finalist, Viet Thanh Nguyen:
“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory . . . . Memory is haunted, not just by ghostly others but by the horrors we have done, seen, and condoned, or by the unspeakable things from which we have profited.”
This is an excellent and correct article. I hope it’s message is heeded.
From another veteran of that American war on Vietnam
For those who lived through that war, are you going to believe your lying eyes and ears, or are you going to believe the “official” history of the war?
For those who didn’t live through that period, we veterans are against rewarding Burns and Novick for a false narrative. You should be too.