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 Taken from Into The Quagmire by John Crandell (reviewer):
Once Upon a Distant War: Young War Correspondents and the Early Vietnam Battles
by William Prochnau
(Crown, 1995)
All of the wretched tragedy that was to come was foretold by western journalists in a delectable, Boomer oriented era of joy and consumption, before Diem and Kennedy were shot twenty one days apart in one month of autumn. Ironically, the author of the subject of this review was yet to arrive in 'Nam for the first of two tours reporting for the Washington Post. The Beach Boys' 'Surfin' USA' had been the number one hit of 1963. Years hence the The Animals' 'We Gotta Get Out of This Place' became the favored song by Vietnam vets (eventually, Jeff Buckley's 'Once I Was' would come to haunt so many strung-out members of said Boomer generation).... Read More
Also In This Issue:
- Stand Up, Vote, Fight Back by Bill Branson
- VVAW Library and Learning Center Updates by VVAW
- Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
- Gerald McCarthy: Haunted Marine, VVAW Activist, College Professor by Jan Barry (reviewer)
- Race in the Crucible of War by John Bromer (reviewer)
- I Was a Hero Once by Jan Barry (reviewer)
- Bong Son Library by John Picciolo
- History in the Making by Robert Maury
- I am a Veteran, and I am? (poem) by Ben Meyer
- Dominic Albanese: War Vet, Wild Man, Poet by Jan Barry
- Will the Mideast War Lead to World War III? (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- The Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don't Rise by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- 26 August 71 (poem) by Marc Levy
- Arachnid Blues (poem) by W. D. Ehrhart
- How Does One Fight for Peace? by Andy Berman (reviewer)
- Into The Quagmire by John Crandell (reviewer)
- Hell, No, We Didn't Go! by Gerald R. Gioglio (reviewer)
- Netan Yahoo! (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- Prisoners After War by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- Allow Prisoners A Voice by Charles Ludwig Bickerstaff
- The Heads, With Gratitude by John "Buddha" Tieman
- Prisoner of War (poem) by rg cantalupo
- Ukraine Invades Russia (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- Empowerment through Education and Micro-Credit in Vietnam by Bhavia Wagner
- Barry Romo, Presente! by VVAW
- Some Barry Romo Memories by Edward Damato
- Barry Romo Memories by VVAW and Friends
- RIP Barry Romo by John Lindquist
- Barry, Tricky Dick, & Me by W. D. Ehrhart
- Twenty-Year-Old Destroyerman by "Somerset" Meece
- Oxy, The Smart Bomb (cartoon) by Billy X. Curmano
- Barry Romo: Friend, Comrade, Brother by Joe Miller
- Barry Romo: Man of the People by Kurt Hilgendorf
- Night Ambush (poem) by Jim Richardson
- May Day, May Day - 2024 (poem) by John Crandell
- Draftee (poem) by rg cantalupo
- Barry Romo: He Lived For Us by Geoffrey Millard
- Memories of Barry Romo by Carl Nyberg
- H. Bruce Franklin: A Personal Farewell to an American Hero by W. D. Ehrhart
- Purple Heart? Silver Star? (poem) by John Crandell
- Homecoming (poem) by L. Rae Hyland
- Walt Comisiak: A Life to Remember by Sharri Gertler
- Listening Post, December 23rd, 1968 (poem) by rg cantalupo
- Dead Children by Fred Samia
- Letter to the Editor by Jim Walters
- Uncle Sam and Trump (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- I Missed Woodstock by John Lindquist
- At Arlington Cemetery (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
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