Some Photos from the 2000s

It all started in 1967, with six Vietnam veterans marching together in a peace demonstration. Now, fifty-eight years later, VVAW is still going strong-- continuing its fight for peace, justice, and the rights of all veterans.

Explore these pages; see what we've done, what we do, and why we do it. The struggle continues, perhaps these days more than ever. VVAW has never stopped working to protect the welfare of those who served their country.

Latest Commentary: From the National Office Well, here we are. The dystopia we warned against is forming before our very eyes. Even the most cynical amongst us is shocked. There is a method to the seeming madness of destruction. The architects of this mayhem are making damn sure that ... Taken from "Nazis, Fascists, and Oligarchs Must be Defeated" by VVAW National Office Read More

Excerpt From  THE VETERAN:  Now Online

Taken from Trading One Uniform for Another: The Military to Prison Pipeline by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon (reviewers):

Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Jason Higgins (University of Massachusetts Press, 2024) Like old soldiers around the country, a group of former service members gathered in Crest Hill, Illinois, to remember fallen comrades on Memorial Day, 2024. Several months later, The Veteran, a newspaper published by Vietnam Veterans Against the War, ran a photo of the event they attended. It shows a multi-generational group of white, Black, and Latino men lined up proudly between two flags. In his dispatch to the paper, African-American Navy veteran Robert Maury explained why everyone in the Stateville Veterans Group was wearing government-issued clothing of a non-military sort. As Maury wrote, "This was the first time in the history of Stateville, if not the first time in the history of the state of Illinois, that incarcerated veterans were allowed to organize a Memorial Day ceremony in a maximum-security prison.... Read More