Some Photos from the 1970s

It all started in 1967, with six Vietnam veterans marching together in a peace demonstration. Now, fifty-nine 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 Like a broken record, the Trump follies seem stuck in a groove, and the ruling classes are still dancing to that tune. We are as tired of this playlist as we're sure many of you are. It is hard to be positive while the constant barrage of lies, corrupt... Taken from "Fight Back. Resist. Stop the Bombings. Stop the Wars." by VVAW National Office Read More

Excerpt From  THE VETERAN:  Now Online

Taken from Indeed, a Hard Rain Has Fallen by W. D. Ehrhart:

I was shocked and saddened to get the news last spring that John Ketwig had died very suddenly. As I suspected, a massive heart attack got him, and the irony was—as his wife told me—that he had had no previous history of heart problems. But there it is. We all know it's coming, though we seldom know how or when. But John's death seemed especially—what's the word? Weird? Eerie?—because John was a prolific reader and reviewer, and I had just been reading several of his reviews in the Spring 2026 issue of The Veteran. I first met John at a conference on the Vietnam War at Gettysburg College in 1985, right about the time that his memoir, . . . and a Hard Rain Fell: a GI's True Story of the War in Vietnam, was first published. I admired his book very much because it was the only memoir I knew of at the time that wasn't a combat war story. John was a truck driver during his time in Vietnam.... Read More