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 Taken from My 1968: Exodus and Re-entry by Joe Miller:
After six years and ten months on active duty, I was discharged from the Navy on February 3, 1968. I was excited and apprehensive about this drastic, but welcome, change.
Two years earlier, I arrived at my final duty station, Helicopter Training Squadron Eight, at Ellyson Field, near Pensacola, Florida. Being there was made more palatable by the fact that my wife and daughter were with me, and we knew that I was getting out in two years.
I was assigned to the Executive Officer's Administration Office. I was the only military person in that office; the rest of my office mates were career civil servants. This base produced Navy and Marine helicopter pilots, a good number of whom went off to war in Vietnam. Most of the instructors already had flying experience in and around Vietnam, so we often heard their war stories.
Since I turned against the war back in 1965, I was not impressed by any of this.... Read More
Also In This Issue:
- The Struggle Continues by Joe Miller
- VVAW Continues Investment in Vietnam's Future by Chuck Theusch
- Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
- Leadership Fiasco at the VA by Suzanne Gordon
- Why I Joined VVAW When I Left the Navy by Dan Lavery
- They Must Have Thought I Was Very Short by Gregory Ross
- My 1968: Exodus and Re-entry by Joe Miller
- Chicago 1968 by Larry Craig
- A Flower at My Lai (poem) by Mike Hastie
- Jesus In The Jungle (poem) by C. F. Harrienger, Jr.
- Veterans and Unions Gain Momentum in their Fight Against VA Privatization by Roberto Jesus Clack
- The Price of Choice by Suzanne Gordon
- 50th Anniversary of the Tet Offensive by John Ketwig
- Prelude to Tet by Dan New
- A Tet Remembrance by Chuck Aswell
- My 1968 Story by Albert Penta
- The Year of the Monkey by Joseph Giannini
- Fifty Years Ago Today by Robert Traller
- February 5, 1968 by Robert Traller
- Photos from the Archives, Part 1 (photos) by VVAW
- Honorable Discharge (poem) by Mike Hastie
- The Standard Bearer (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- A Rapt Evening of May 1968 by John Crandell
- Maggot Days: The Wheels on the Bus by Gerald R. Gioglio
- One More Night (poem) by David Sandgrund
- The Emerging Veteran Art Movement Gains Momentum by Kevin Basl
- Veteran Artists and the Poor People's Campaign Portfolio by Aaron Hughes
- war, survival, guilt and choice (poem) by Gregory Ross
- About Face by Matt Howard
- The Right to Bear Arms (a found poem) by W. D. Ehrhart
- On Being Frank by Marc Levy
- The Boy Who Played Army by Joe Petzel
- Percussion, Concussion, Destruction and Death by Gregory Ross
- Coping with PTSD Within and Without the VA by Bill Ronan
- All the Difference by Peter Stine (reviewer)
- On Tyranny by Steve Geiger (reviewer)
- Coping with PTSD by John Ketwig
- Casualty Poem (poem) by Marc Levy
- W A R (poem) by Mike Hastie
- William Joiner Institute Under Siege by Marc Levy
- Oxy, the Wise Bomb (cartoon) by Billy X. Curmano
- A True Spat-Upon Soldier Story by W. D. Ehrhart
- Vietnam Ambush by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- Photos from the Archives, Part 2 (photos) by VVAW
- The Road Not Taken by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- Tin Can by Dan Lavery (reviewer)
- Establishment Account of the Vietnam War by Roger Carasso
- Long Daze at Long Binh by John Zutz (reviewer)
- Vietnam: A History of the War by Allen Meece (reviewer)
- Button Man (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- Blind Nation by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- The Vietnam I Remember by r g cantalupo
- Autopsy of War: A Personal History by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- If I Die Before I Wake: During Tet 1968 and After by r g cantalupo
- What Did I Fight For? (poem) by Bruce H. Hendrickson
- RECOLLECTIONS: I Couldn't Escape '68 by Jim Wohlgemuth
- DACA Vets (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- El Machete Illustrated (cartoon) by Eric J. Garcia
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