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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 RECOLLECTIONS: 1972 Republican Convention by William Shelton:
Our vacation was over and it was back to politics.
About two weeks later, George, Ralph and I loaded ourselves into George's van and began a three-day drive to Miami Beach to participate in the festivities surrounding the Republican National Convention. We would be joining nearly five thousand other street delegates, including a large VVAW contingent. Linda hadn't been able to get any more time off from work, so Janet came up to stay with her while we were gone.
As we neared Miami, we saw cars, vans, trucks, all filled with long-hairs, apparently headed in the same direction. There were hundreds of others hitchhiking. We crammed as many as we could into the van.
Things got off to a rapid start. Shortly after we arrived at Flamingo Park, where we had created a "liberated zone," six members of the American Nazi Party seized the stage. The crowd, filled with hippies, yippies, zippies and other assorted malcontents from American society, was angry... Read More
In This Issue:
- VVAW Still Teaching the American War in Vietnam: On Burns/Novick "The Vietnam War" by Joe Miller
- VVAW 50th Celebrations by VVAW
- Available Soon: VVAW 50 Years of Struggle by VVAW
- Fighting Racists Then and Now by Barry Romo
- Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
- Notes from the Boonies by Paul Wisovaty
- Anti-war Veterans Stand Up with Unions to Save the VA by Robert Clack
- VVAW Statement Read Outside Trump's American Legion Speech in Reno by Anthony Shafton
- What is History? by Jack Mallory
- Vietnam Memories by Dan New
- Support for Nazis is Not New to America by John Ketwig
- VVAW 50th Gatherings (photos) by VVAW
- Remembering Chukia Lawton by Mark Hartford
- Horace Coleman: May 4, 1943 - September 16, 2017 by The Coleman Family
- In Memory of Horace Coleman by W. D. Ehrhart
- Soul Wounds: Healing and True Peace by Daniel Corral
- Steve Somerstein - Presente! by Ben Chitty
- N. E. Scheppers, Remembered by John Crandell
- Photos from the Archives by VVAW
- Giong by Larry Craig (reviewer)
- Why I Support VVAW by Ray O'Loughlin
- Stars, Bars and Stripes: A History of Incarcerated Veterans Since Vietnam by Jason A. Higgins
- Taking a Knee for Peace: Recalling the Veterans Who Sat by Jerry Lembcke
- Walkin' the Talk (Therapy) by J. Michael Orange
- What I Knew of Him (poem) by Christine E. Black
- The Sound of PTSD by Gregory Ross
- Dancing in the Streets (poem) by W. D. Ehrhart
- Teaching and Traveling in Vietnam by Kim Scipes
- W.D. Ehrhart in Conversation by Sanford Kelson (reviewer)
- Hell No by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- Tree of Smoke by Shelley Masar (reviewer)
- 11 a.m. (poem) by Mary Ann Starus
- 21 Months, 24 Days by Dan Lavery (reviewer)
- Homage to Viet Vets (poem) by Jay Wenk
- Nothing Ever Dies by Steve Krug (reviewer)
- Hue 1968 by Jack Mallory (reviewer)
- Mary's Mosaic by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- Woofs of War! (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- A Vietnam Era Chicago Story by Joe Miller (reviewer)
- Ken Burns' "Vietnam": A Legacy for War as a "Noble Cause" by rg cantalupo (reviewer)
- Soldiers in Revolt by Alan Stolzer (reviewer)
- Renunciation by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- McNamara's Mistake by Hamilton Gregory
- Oxy, the Wise Bomb (cartoon) by Billy X. Curmano
- When Veterans Protested the Vietnam War by Jan Barry
- Thank You VVAW by Joe Petzel
- Photos from the Archives: Early 1970s by VVAW
- It Still Hurts by Jim Wohlgemuth
- Remembering the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 50 Years Later by Al Wellman
- Maggot Days by Gerald R. Gioglio
- A Letter From My Soul, A Letter From My Heart by Gregory Ross
- Bitch by Joseph Giannini
- In the Cross-hairs of Racism's Killing Zone, 1968 by rg cantalupo
- Scognamilio by Richard Brummett
- The Veteran is the Key to Peace by Stanley Campbell
- This is Peru by Louis De Benedette
- Living with War Everyday (poem) by Barry Reece
- Another Anti-War Poem (poem) by Roger Forkel
- RECOLLECTIONS: 1972 Republican Convention by William Shelton
- Trump's War (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
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