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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 Smedley Darlington Butler: From Consummate Imperialist to Strident Anti-Imperialist by W. D. Ehrhart:
A recently published book, Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire by Jonathan Katz, is finally bringing much-needed mainstream attention to one of the most fascinating Americans of the 20th century.
My connection to Butler goes back to the summer of 1966 when I arrived at US Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, at the age of 17. We learned all sorts of things that summer, but one thing we learned was the names of the two Marines who had each won not one, but two Medals of Honor: Dan Daly and Smedley Butler.
Butler would have received three Medals of Honor if the award had been available to officers during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 China. Every enlisted man on a patrol he led as a teenage lieutenant received one, but he was instead awarded the Marine Corps Brevet Medal, the highest decoration for bravery then available to commissioned officers... Read More
In This Issue:
- Putin's War on Ukraine Must Stop by Bill Branson and Joe Miller
- VVAW Library Project - Open for Business by VVAW
- The Oath I Keep by Meg Miner
- Here We Go Again (poem) by Jan Barry
- Driving I Remember (poem) by Larry Kerschner
- Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
- The Double Standard of War by Fred Samia
- Biden's Sanctions on Afghanistan Threaten to Kill More Civilians than Two Decades of War by Mark Weisbrot
- Could Ukraine Be About Oil? by Allen Meece
- Smedley Darlington Butler: From Consummate Imperialist to Strident Anti-Imperialist by W. D. Ehrhart
- Blood on Their Tuxes by Peter P. Mahoney
- VVAW Library Project - Completed photos by VVAW
- The Last Patrol: 1972 by as told to Richard Stacewicz
- The Democratic Convention: 1972 by as told to Richard Stacewicz
- The Man in the Uniform (poem) by Woody Powell
- The Light at the Tip of the Candle by Michael Orange
- Sgt. Johnston 52 Years Later by Bill Johnston
- Maggot Days:Here Comes the Sun by Gerald R. Gioglio
- Years of a Life: Lessons Learned and Unlearned by Joe Miller (reviewer)
- Entering War, Coming Home by Joe Petzel
- 50 Years Since 1972: Reflections Back to '68 & Then to War's End! by Ron Bunnell
- I Served As A Civilian Advisor During The Vietnam War by Terry Coleman
- Russian Diplomacy (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- Return to Vietnam by Andy Berman
- The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- What Could I Have Done? What Should I Have Done? by Jim Wohlgemuth
- Our Veterans by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- The Defoliation of America by John Zutz (reviewer)
- Seeking Quan Am by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- Before (poem) by David Sandgrund
- I Was Wrong (poem) by Michael Nelson
- Memories of War Do Not Go Away by Ed White (reviewer)
- Eighteen Years Before He Died (poem) by Marc Levy
- Voting for War by Steve Krug (reviewer)
- Tipping Point: An Inspiring Break From War by rg cantalupo (reviewer)
- Just Like Me by Steve Krug (reviewer)
- Thich Nhat Hahn, RIP (poem) by Jan Barry
- Who You Are Told Is The Enemy (poem) by David Connolly
- The People vs. Agent Orange by Paul Nichols (reviewer)
- Letter to the Vietnam Memorial Wall by Bill Potvin
- Just Like Me by rg cantalupo (reviewer)
- Oxy, the Smart Bomb (cartoon) by Billy X. Curmano
- Remembering Cody Camacho by Jeri Reed
- Prisoner of War (poem) by rg cantalupo
- Jeff Stone: May 25, 1946 - March 8, 2022 by Jim Smith
- Gazpacho Tactics (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- In Remembrance and Regret by Art Dorland
- Women Vietnam Veterans by Ed White (reviewer)
- An Army of One (poem) by Larry Kerschner
- Bastion (poem) by Tony Marconi
- Russian Money (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- The Cost of Loyalty by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- The Return by Gary Rafferty
- China Beach Surf Club - Part 1 by Joseph Giannini
- Annie Bailey Memorial by VVAW
- 1969, Vietnam: While Waiting For Nixon's Secret Plan by John Crandell
- Trump Attention (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
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