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It all started in 1967, with six Vietnam veterans marching together in a peace demonstration. Now, fifty-six years later, VVAW is still going strong-- continuing its fight for peace, justice, and the rights of all veterans.
Explore these pages; see what we've done, what we do, and why we do it. The struggle continues, perhaps these days more than ever. VVAW has never stopped working to protect the welfare of those who served their country.
Will you join us?
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Latest Commentary:
From the VVAW National Office
As we approach another Veterans Day and as many of us are in our seventh decade of living, we have much to be concerned about. The war in Ukraine still continues, our hard won freedoms are under attack, and the fascist hordes are at the gates. We fe...
Taken from "Stand Up For Your Rights" by Bill Branson Read More
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Excerpt From THE VETERAN: Now Online Taken from Two Reviews of Self-published Books by Min Warburton (reviewer):
Remembrances: True Stories of a Reluctant Warrior
by rg cantalupo
(self-published, 2022)
A Long Way Home
by Terry Raycraft
(BookBaby, 2021)
Two books, both self-published, highlight the pros and cons of self-publishing.
Ross Canton aka rg cantalupo's Remembrances: True Stories of a Reluctant Warrior is a slim poetry book—fourteen poems and two letters, one to a Vietnam buddy, and one to his first wife, Janice. The letters are letters of love, sorrow, sadness, and repentance, the essence of all true remembrance. Between the pages of poems, there are also photographs of American and Vietnamese faces. If you were there, they will take you back, but gently I think. The poems—I have read them, read them again, and then read them aloud.
"…I was done with War long before/War was done with me…" is a line that echoes and reverberates. It is, for many soldiers, a simple truth eloquently stated.... Read More
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