From Watching 'Nam Flicks: The Deer Hunter vs. Apocalypse Now in Particular by John Crandell (reviewer):

All of these years later and I wake from a Covid dream late in May. I've just wandered through Martin Sheen's cluttered apartment. The floor, the cabinets, walls, and ceiling are all purple haze. I need a shower and the bath is overgrown with blue elephant grass. Stinking, I go into the field instead and pointman Scheppers is blasting a sawed-off shotgun. I grab and aim but never fire. In '81, at his 300-square-foot mansion on Yosemite Drive, he and I argued about the merits of The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now. A decade had already elapsed since we'd been reassigned from Nam to Fort Hood. He was down on both films due to his wont of verisimilitude. I tried to point up the expressive wonders of the latter but to no avail. His Air Cav bud nicknamed Gridsquare once said of him that he'd ate too much raw sauerkraut and no amount of Budweiser would ever make up for it. His parents experienced World War II in situ in Germany... Read More

In This Issue:

1. Stand Up For Your Rights by Bill Branson
2. Another VVAW Library Project Launches by VVAW
3. Agent Orange's Long, Brutal Reach by Jan Barry
4. War's Long Reach (poem) by Jan Barry
5. To the Future (poem) by W. D. Ehrhart
6. Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
7. Ukraine and Vietnam: Nothing is More Precious Than Independence and Liberty by Mike Woloshin
8. Bricks to Putin (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
9. Radio Free Devens by Marc Levy
10. Returning by E. C. Streeter
11. We Still Need To Oppose Privatizing the VA by John Ketwig
12. Coming Home by Fred Samia
13. Through the Looking Glass (poem) by W. D. Ehrhart
14. Barry Romo in Vietnam, 1972 by as told to Richard Stacewicz
15. Report from Hanoi: Vietnam Revisited by Barry Romo
16. Coming Home In Vietnam by John Ketwig (reviewer)
17. Waging the War Within by Timothy Farley (reviewer)
18. Two Reviews of Self-published Books by Min Warburton (reviewer)
19. He Was Right (poem) by Larry Booth
20. PTSD (poem) by Woody Powell
21. Our Veterans by Kim Scipes (reviewer)
22. And in the End by Tony Cokely
23. Draftee (poem) by rg cantalupo
24. Help for Children in Vietnam Who Lost a Parent to COVID-19 by Bhavia Wagner
25. Photos from the VVAW Archives by VVAW
26. Peace Marching in Vietnam 1993 by Stephen Sossaman
27. Back To The Beginning - The Supposed Necessity of It All by John Crandell (reviewer)
28. Two Books Are Better Than One by John Ketwig (reviewer)
29. Remembrances (poem) by rg cantalupo
30. Women Vietnam Veterans: Our Untold Stories by Min Warburton (reviewer)
31. 50th Anniversary by Jim Wohlgemuth
32. Watching 'Nam Flicks: The Deer Hunter vs. Apocalypse Now in Particular by John Crandell (reviewer)
33. Paths of Dissent by Timothy Farley (reviewer)
34. Long Shadows by John Fournelle (reviewer)
35. Tiger Papa Three by John Bromer (reviewer)
36. Cleaned and Oiled (poem) by Woody Powell
37. After We Are The Ones To Survive (poem) by Larry Kerschner
38. The Last Full Measure by Allen Meece (reviewer)
39. Not Funny by Bill Potvin
40. Bright White Light (poem) by Larry Kerschner
41. Warpath by John Ketwig (reviewer)
42. Oxy, the Wise Bomb (cartoon) by Billy X. Curmano
43. Michael Gold (1946-2022): Intrepid Veterans Advocate by Edward Damato
44. An Extraordinary Veteran and Life: A Daughter Remembers Ashby Leach by Janet Lynn Leach Kelly
45. Vet Battles For Better Life: Free Ashby Leach by VVAW
46. Second Veteran Art Triennial Dives Into the Meaning of the Long Wars by Rachel Dukes and Aaron Hughes
47. Memories of My Time in RVN by Paul Byrnes
48. Remembering Olongapo by Al Wellman
49. China Beach Surf Club - Part 2 by Joseph Giannini
50. Reflecting on Returning to Vietnam by Fred Ptucha
51. Big Bloody (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
52. Tear by Tear by Michael Orange
53. Calling Putin (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger