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A Limited Incursion Into Congress 'Land'

By VVAW

A LIMITED INCURSION INTO CONGRESS 'LAND'
OPERATION DEWEY CANYON IV
Wed. thru Sat., 12th thru 15th May

Dep. Of Vets Affairs, Wisconsin
Letter of Support

Dear VVAW,

It has been gratifying to have the support of your organization in our fight in Wisconsin for more equitable assistance to Vietnam veterans in helping to relieve the personal problems created by their war-time service, and to work with you toward the common goals. The Vietnam veteran has been very badly used by the state and the nation, and your efforts to aid the American victims of the conflict in Southeast Asia are to be commended.

I support your goals:

1. Test, Treat & compensate Agent Orange Victims.
2. Decent Benefits for all Vets.
3. Stop all VA cuts.
4. Support Incarcerated Vets, and I commend you for VVAW's efforts to increase public awareness of the problems and public demand for redress.

Sincerely,
John R. Moses
Secretary Department of Veterans Affairs State of Wisconsin

NATIONAL PLANNING MEETING
VVAW STEERING COMM.

The VVAW National Office along with members of the VVAW National Steering Committee and assorted experts held a meeting in Chicago in early October to discuss permits, schedules, plans and progress for national veterans activities in Washington, DC next May.

Concretizing plans, the group filled out permits, signed them and sent them off to the DC police to arrange for campsites, march routes and rally points (the schedule is printed on the back page of this issue of THE VETERAN). Discussions were held around fund-raising, travel, speakers and other items, and beginning security and logistics committees were set up.

The planning group will meet again in Milwaukee in early December and, at that time, make final plans for a larger meeting to include all interested vets and endorsers of Dewey Canyon IV for Chicago in mid-February.

"NOT SINCE THE BONUS MARCHES..."

(Reprinted from the North Country Anvil (P.O. Box 402, Winona, MN 55987)

"...Vietnam vets are not sitting idly by waiting for official government recognition of the problem. Like John Lindquist in Milwaukee, the vets are mounting their own offensive. Not since the bonus marchers of fifty years ago has the government been faced with a more committed and angry group of veterans.

"Plans are underway by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War for a protest march and camp in Washington, DC , next spring. Lindquist says it will be a 'limited incursion' into the mall in front of the U.S. Capitol.

"There, facing the white obilisk of the Washington Monument, a motley army camped amid the bluster and banalities will confront a nation trying hard to forget them.

"Vietnam...our first mad, psychedelic, stereophonic war...They hope to make it our last."

ATTENTION: AGENT ORANGE PARENTS

As part of the first day's activities during Dewey Canyon IV we will introduce children affected by Agent Orange as part of the candlelight march on the White House. We will leave photos of these children taped to the White House fence. Even if you can't come to Dewey Canyon IV—or if you can—please send photos of children affected by Agent Orange.

Test, Treat & Compensate Agent Orange Victims—especially our children!!

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PARTIAL LIST ENDORSERS

Partial list of individuals and groups endorsing Operation Dewey Canyon IV:

National Association of Black Veterans; "Country" Joe MacDonald; Bill Davis, Chairman, Illinois Veterans Civic Council; United Professionals of Madison, Wisconsin (Nurses); Pete Seiger; O'Hare Local, American Postal Workers union; Jack Gladden, President, Student Body, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee; tom Loftus, State Representative, Madison, Wisconsin; David Bridgman, Professor, Colby College, Colby, Maine.

REMEMBER THIS?

In early September, Secretary of State Alexander Haig, shooting once again from his well-worn hip, blasted the Soviet union for its use of chemical agents in Southeast Asia. Banner headlines in papers across the U.S. carried his charges along with his promise to present his evidence at the United Nations.

Few people doubt that the Soviets have—and would use—chemical agents as nasty as anything the U.S. has—and has used. For at least some Vietnam vets there was the suspicion that Haig might have been presented with Agent Orange residue leftover from the U.S. blanketing of that part of the world.

Not quite so simple, however; it seems instead that Haig's mouth was working before his brain was in gear. The particular chemical on which he wa basing his charges exists naturally all over the world.