It all started in 1967, with six Vietnam veterans marching together in a peace demonstration. Now, fifty-seven years later, VVAW is still going strong-- continuing its fight for peace, justice, and the rights of all veterans.
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50 years ago, in January 1973, the Paris Peace Accords were signed, and many assumed the war was over. In fact, the US continued the killing for two more years.
Even then, with the US defeat and withdrawal in 1975, the shooting and bombing b...
Taken from "Serving the Children of Vietnam" by Bill Branson Read More
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Excerpt From THE VETERAN: Now OnlineTaken from The Long Reckoning by Elaine Elinson (reviewer):
The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam
by George Black
(Alfred A. Knopf, 2023)
This article originally appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books and is reprinted with permission.
The walkway to the Mine Action Visitors Center in Quang Tri is lined with lush grasses, swaying palm trees, and blooming flowers in basins. As we drew closer, I noticed something unusual. The plants grew in hollowed-out bomb casings and rusted artillery shells—swords to plowshares.
There could be no more perfect place for such a memorial. Quang Tri province, an area the size of Delaware, was subjected to the most intensive aerial assault of the American war in Vietnam and in addition to carpet bombing by B-52s, which dropped 750- and 500-pound bombs on villages, farmland, and forests, raging land battles left the earth littered with a countless number of cluster bomblets, artillery shells, hand grenades, rockets, mortars, and landmines.... Read More
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