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THE VETERAN

THE VETERAN is the newspaper of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc. In 1971 and 1972 it was published as 1st Casualty. From 1973 to 1975, it was published as Winter Soldier. In 1975, it became THE VETERAN.

THE VETERAN was the first voice of Vietnam veterans in America, and has consistently addressed issues of peace and justice. Original articles on Post Traumatic Stress and Agent Orange have appeared since its first year of publication.

THE VETERAN still continues publication two times a year. Articles from recent issues are available below.

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From Always Resisting by John Bromer (reviewer):

Always Resisting: Choosing Prison Over Vietnam and Awakening to American Racism by Eric Newhall (McFarland, 2024) This is one of my two favorite books that I've reviewed for The Veteran—the other is Southern Voices, a 68-page (in English) collection of oral histories from Biet Dong fighters. Look it up! "If you want a just society, your life will be a permanent struggle." Eric Newhall's family moved to Portland, Oregon, one of the whitest cities in America, in 1955, when he was 10 years old. There were no Black students in his elementary school or high school—none. Very few Latinos or Asians, either. When he was 14, his father, a Philosophy Professor, took him to join a "sympathy protest" at the Portland Woolworth's. (A month before, four Black students in North Carolina had been beaten while asking to be served at a Woolworth's lunch counter). A racist mob was taunting the 20 or so Portland picketers... Read More

In This Issue:

  1. A Continuing Saga: We Won't Get Fooled Again by VVAW National Office
  2. Building for Future Generations: VVAW Library and Learning Center Updates by VVAW
  3. The Veteran Info by VVAW
  4. Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
  5. Stop the VA Cuts and Stand with Ukraine by John Lindquist
  6. Adolph Speaks (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
  7. Trump's Executive Order Attacking Veterans and Others by Aimee Potter
  8. VA Job Cut Threat:Should Labor and Vets Declare Victory or Keep Up the Fight? by Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early
  9. Decomposed Granite (poem) by John Crandell
  10. "CASREP" Is Navy For "Casualty Report" (poem) by Carl Nyberg
  11. The Wrong People Learned the Wrong Lessons by W. D. Ehrhart
  12. Following Orders (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
  13. Veterans and Unions Unite to Save the VA by Ken Nielsen and Michael Applegate
  14. A Labor/Vet Protest:DC Rally and Local Events Defend VA Care on D-Day by Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early
  15. VVAW and Sartorial Dissent in the GI Movement by Lily Moreno-Sheridan
  16. Right to Refuse: Rebuilding the GI Resistance Movement by Aaron Hughes
  17. Killing Babies: Vietnam 1968 (poem) by Sonny Williams
  18. Finally in Each War (poem) by Larry Kerschner
  19. A Marine Talks to My Heart by Cesar Hernandez
  20. Write Your Mother by John Zutz
  21. Putin's Imperial Ambitions in Ukraine Threatens World War III by Mike Woloshin
  22. Permission to Walk in Peace by Jerry Neece (reviewer)
  23. Vietnam Today, After 50 Years of Peace, With Other Wars Raging by Nadya Williams
  24. Empowering the Poor Amidst Big Changes in Vietnam by Bhavia Wagner
  25. Photos from the VVAW Archives by VVAW
  26. Remembering Jack Elder by Tom Wetzler
  27. Jimmy in Saigon by Sarah Axel
  28. Surviving the Long Wars by Meg Miner (reviewer)
  29. Always Resisting by John Bromer (reviewer)
  30. I Was Arrested for the First Time in My Life … And It Was Worth It by Chet Hill
  31. The Wall (poem) by Eva Hagenhofer
  32. Connect the Dots (poem) by Carl Nyberg
  33. Hope by E.C. Streeter
  34. All I Have Left Are Rhetorical Questions by Jim Wohlgemuth
  35. Scorpions' Dance by John Ketwig (reviewer)
  36. Red by Tony Cokely
  37. Five Names on a Granite Slab by Tom Farley (reviewer)
  38. A Disturbing but Welcome Change of Perspective: From The Vietnam War to The American War by Mike Budd
  39. Trumpster Fire (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
  40. Our Nation's Flag With The Cost Of Freedom (painting) by James Wachtendonk
  41. Oxy, the Smart Bomb (cartoon) by Billy X. Curmano
  42. Waging Peace: From Vietnam to Volgograd by Jack Mallory (reviewer)
  43. Smart Fish Don't Bite by John Ketwig (reviewer)
  44. A Veteran's Day Reminiscence by Roger Thorndike
  45. Profit-Mode Diplomacy by Allen Somerset Meece
  46. Memories of Nam by Maurice Simon
  47. My Daughter's Two Birthdays by Joe Miller
  48. Letter to the Editor by Paul Hellweg
  49. Letter to the Editor by Tom Charles
  50. Land of Smiles by John Ketwig (reviewer)
  51. What American Youth Need To Know (poem) by Mike Hastie
  52. The Kit Carson Scout by Richard Fleming
  53. Squirrels and the War (poem) by Dan L. Richter
  54. Hospital Targets (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
  55. VVAW Memories by Mike Woloshin
  56. Putin Talks (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger