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THE VETERAN is the newspaper of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc. In 1971 and 1972 it was published as 1st Casualty. From 1973 to 1975, it was published as Winter Soldier. In 1975, it became THE VETERAN.
THE VETERAN was the first voice of Vietnam veterans in America, and has consistently addressed issues of peace and justice. Original articles on Post Traumatic Stress and Agent Orange have appeared since its first year of publication.
THE VETERAN still continues publication two times a year. Articles from recent issues are available below.
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 From Letter to Editor by Al Donohue:
The Buffalo News April-26-2012 printed in the Everybody's Column section.
Pentagon's Control
of Veteran's Affairs
The attempt to intimidate the veteran community's opinion regarding the government's military spending won't work. Veterans are not only veterans, who receive health care, disability and educational assistance through the Veterans Administration (which is funded by the Defense Department), they are also citizens, taxpayers and workers. They know that the dead-end and disastrous foreign policy followed by the US government since the end of World War II has served as a justification for the massive military budgets that every year have boosted corporate profits and helped create the $14 trillion federal deficit.
To end this attempted intimidation, Veterans Affairs should be removed from the political and economic control of the Pentagon... Read More
In This Issue:
- IVAW and VVAW Chicago Mobilize Against Sanctions and War on Iran by Robert Clack
- VVAW Visits Archives at the Wisconsin Historical Society by Jen Tayabji
- From the National Office by Bill Branson
- Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
- Notes From The Boonies by Paul Wisovaty
- Veterans F.O.R./VVAW Emergency Food Card Assistance Project by Jim Murphy
- Remember the Children by Susan Schnall
- Congress Rejects Veterans Omnibus Bill and Military Sexual Assault Legislation by Robert Clack
- Military Justice (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- War Really Is A Racket by Michael J. Burke
- VVAW Fundraiser by Brian Matarrese
- Veterans Organizing Conference, New York City by Susan Schnall
- Vets for Equal Rights by Danny Ingram
- A Call to Law Down Arms and Recognize Our Common Humanity by Susan Schnall
- RIP Bob Riggle by John Lindquist
- The Future Is Now by R. G. Cantalupo
- They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America's Wars - The Untold Story by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- Full Disclosure: Toward an Honest Commemoration of the American War in Viet Nam by Howard Machtinger
- McCain on the Ukraine (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- Vietnam Protests, Kent State, and Nixon's Cambodian Invasion 1970 by Daniel C. Lavery
- Oxy, the Wise Bomb (cartoon) by Billy X. Curmano
- 1972 Republican Convention (photos) by VVAW
- Classic Oxy (cartoon) by Billy X. Curmano
- They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace in America and Vietnam by Bonnie Caracciolo (reviewer)
- Elegy (poem) by Bruce Weigl
- We Did What We Could (poem) by R. G. Cantalupo
- Protesting the Slaughter of Innocent Civilians by Louis DeBenedette
- What If? Could Tonkin Amendment Have Prevented Vietnam Ground War? by Bill Christofferson
- Tonkin Gulf: A Realistic Fantasy by Joe Miller (reviewer)
- Tonkin Gulf Intrusion by Allen Meece
- News of a Lost Friend by Dan New
- Disbelief in Government Statements Markedly Increased During Vietnam Era by Gerson Lesser
- Catching up with Tico: Prelude to the Tonkin Gulf Incidents by Joe Miller
- Serving Your Health After Serving Your Country: How To Stay Healthy As A Military Veteran by Renee Keats
- Walking Through Fire by Staughton Lynd (reviewer)
- Back From Nam (poem) by Daniel C. Lavery
- How I Nearly Won the War by Marc Levy
- Jimmy Mack by Richard Wells
- USSC Campaign Finance (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- Old Soldiers by James Hellvig
- Letter to VVAW by Joseph Guastella
- Peace by Harold R. Pettus
- Senator Feinstein Very Angry at CIA (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- Betrayal: Toxic Exposure of US Marines, Murder and Government Cover-up by Aaron Davis (reviewer)
- In the Dark by Frank J. Pavlak
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Torture by John McNamer
- Tommy (poem) by Barry L. Reece
- Flowers for An Loc by Jim Willingham
- Enough by Harold Pettus
- Letter to Editor by Al Donohue
- Teenage Nazis (poem) by Dennis Serdel
- Blurting Out The Lies (poem) by Mike Hastie
- RECOLLECTIONS: Bacsi-Doc by Walt Cronin
- George Bush Painting Boarding (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- VVAW in the 1980s (photos) by VVAW
- Misc. Photos by VVAW
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