Some Photos from the 1980s

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.

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

View the 1971 50th Anniversary Pages and Guestbook

Excerpt From  THE VETERAN:  Now Online

Taken from The Brothers by John Ketwig (reviewer):

The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War by Stephen Kinzer (St. Martin's Griffin, 2013) In 2016, I reviewed a book titled The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot. A biography of Allen Dulles, that book shined a bright and powerful light on America's foreign policies and history since the end of World War II. I wrote that that book was "a dark and troubling history of America's post-World War II subtle and insidious turn away from Democracy and the concept of one man/one vote to a secretive and deadly environment of manipulations and assassinations that became the Cold War, and perhaps even more." Former VVAW member and author of an array of books about that era, the late John Prados, told me The Brothers was an even better book, as the Dulles brothers worked together to steer America's foreign policies away from any cooperation with communists, leftists, or progressives anywhere in the world.... Read More