From RECOLLECTIONS: I Couldn't Escape '68 by Jim Wohlgemuth:

I am sure many of us are feeling those pangs of memory, those anxieties of wartime experiences as the 50th anniversary of Vietnam continues and drags unmercifully through the sanitation of time and Ken Burns. To some of you, your anniversaries have come and gone and I am sure you are well done with it. For me, mine is about to start, the fiftieth anniversary of 1968. Fifty years ago I was partying through a year at Drexel Institute of Technology as I squandered my 2S deferment. In January I saw the news about the Tet, I saw the extent, the power, and the commitment of the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong and knew LBJ's optimism was unfounded. When peace candidate Gene McCarthy challenged LBJ in the New Hampshire primary and almost won, I felt good, maybe there might be peace and Vietnam would end. Johnson pulls out, in comes Bobby and I am thinking that there is truly going to be a peace candidate... Read More

In This Issue:

1. The Struggle Continues by Joe Miller
2. VVAW Continues Investment in Vietnam's Future by Chuck Theusch
3. Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
4. Leadership Fiasco at the VA by Suzanne Gordon
5. Why I Joined VVAW When I Left the Navy by Dan Lavery
6. They Must Have Thought I Was Very Short by Gregory Ross
7. My 1968: Exodus and Re-entry by Joe Miller
8. Chicago 1968 by Larry Craig
9. A Flower at My Lai (poem) by Mike Hastie
10. Jesus In The Jungle (poem) by C. F. Harrienger, Jr.
11. Veterans and Unions Gain Momentum in their Fight Against VA Privatization by Roberto Jesus Clack
12. The Price of Choice by Suzanne Gordon
13. 50th Anniversary of the Tet Offensive by John Ketwig
14. Prelude to Tet by Dan New
15. A Tet Remembrance by Chuck Aswell
16. My 1968 Story by Albert Penta
17. The Year of the Monkey by Joseph Giannini
18. Fifty Years Ago Today by Robert Traller
19. February 5, 1968 by Robert Traller
20. Photos from the Archives, Part 1 (photos) by VVAW
21. Honorable Discharge (poem) by Mike Hastie
22. The Standard Bearer (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
23. A Rapt Evening of May 1968 by John Crandell
24. Maggot Days: The Wheels on the Bus by Gerald R. Gioglio
25. One More Night (poem) by David Sandgrund
26. The Emerging Veteran Art Movement Gains Momentum by Kevin Basl
27. Veteran Artists and the Poor People's Campaign Portfolio by Aaron Hughes
28. war, survival, guilt and choice (poem) by Gregory Ross
29. About Face by Matt Howard
30. The Right to Bear Arms (a found poem) by W. D. Ehrhart
31. On Being Frank by Marc Levy
32. The Boy Who Played Army by Joe Petzel
33. Percussion, Concussion, Destruction and Death by Gregory Ross
34. Coping with PTSD Within and Without the VA by Bill Ronan
35. All the Difference by Peter Stine (reviewer)
36. On Tyranny by Steve Geiger (reviewer)
37. Coping with PTSD by John Ketwig
38. Casualty Poem (poem) by Marc Levy
39. W A R (poem) by Mike Hastie
40. William Joiner Institute Under Siege by Marc Levy
41. Oxy, the Wise Bomb (cartoon) by Billy X. Curmano
42. A True Spat-Upon Soldier Story by W. D. Ehrhart
43. Vietnam Ambush by John Ketwig (reviewer)
44. Photos from the Archives, Part 2 (photos) by VVAW
45. The Road Not Taken by John Ketwig (reviewer)
46. Tin Can by Dan Lavery (reviewer)
47. Establishment Account of the Vietnam War by Roger Carasso
48. Long Daze at Long Binh by John Zutz (reviewer)
49. Vietnam: A History of the War by Allen Meece (reviewer)
50. Button Man (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
51. Blind Nation by John Ketwig (reviewer)
52. The Vietnam I Remember by r g cantalupo
53. Autopsy of War: A Personal History by John Ketwig (reviewer)
54. If I Die Before I Wake: During Tet 1968 and After by r g cantalupo
55. What Did I Fight For? (poem) by Bruce H. Hendrickson
56. RECOLLECTIONS: I Couldn't Escape '68 by Jim Wohlgemuth
57. DACA Vets (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
58. El Machete Illustrated (cartoon) by Eric J. Garcia