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It all started in 1967, with six Vietnam veterans marching together in a peace demonstration. Now, fifty-seven 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.
Will you join us?
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Latest Commentary:
From the National Office
Our politics and political unity were forged in our opposition to the war in Vietnam. Some of us were drafted, others volunteered. Many fought in the jungles, some in the rear or offshore. Many of our fathers and uncles fought fascism. All of us changed...
Taken from "On the Necessity of Struggle" by Bill Branson Read More
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View the 1971 50th Anniversary Pages and Guestbook
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Excerpt From THE VETERAN: Now Online Taken from After the Apocalypse by John Ketwig (reviewer):
After the Apocalypse
by Andrew Bacevich
(Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company, 2021)
Andrew Bacevich is a graduate of West Point and retired from the army, a Vietnam veteran at the rank of Colonel. He received his Ph.D. in American Diplomatic History from Princeton, taught at West Point and Johns Hopkins, and then at Boston University, where he is a Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country (2013); The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (2008); The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War (2005); and Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America's Forever Wars (2022).... Read More
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