From From the National Office by Joe Miller:

New crises, new dangers, new possibilities. Since our last issue, it seems we have entered a new era, with ever-compounding crises in politics and environment. At the same time, there are new possibilities in politics and citizen activity with fresh new faces and voices in Washington and around the world. President Chump is in deep trouble with the release of the Mueller documents and a House of Representatives that is finally doing its job. This does not even include the external investigations that put Chump and family in dire straits. How does President Orange respond? He manufactures a crisis on the border, raises the spectre of "socialism" in the coming election, and threatens to send troops to Venezuela to "save" the Venezuelan people from themselves, a la Henry Kissinger in Chile in 1973. We might expect troops (excuse me, "advisors") to start landing on some Sunday afternoon. Military Times of March 15, 2019, has already raised that possibility... Read More

In This Issue:

1. VVAW to Sponsor Children's Library in Vietnam by Bill Branson
2. Why Are We Still VVAW? by John Lindquist
3. From the National Office by Joe Miller
4. Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
5. Notes from the Boonies by Paul Wisovaty
6. No Health Care System is Perfect: But I'll Take VA Health Care by Jack Mallory
7. The Hardest Challenge With Homeless and On the Edge Veterans by Jim Murphy
8. Either Save the VA or Stop Making Veterans by Jim Wohlgemuth
9. On Listening to Veterans by Jack Mallory
10. Thank You for Your Service (poem) by W. D. Ehrhart
11. The VA Treats Me Well by Allen Meece
12. Me and the VA by Leon Wengrzyn
13. Students Thank VVAW for Classroom Visit by VVAW
14. National Veterans Art Museum (NVAM) Holds First Ever Triennial by Kevin Basl
15. Celebrating the Life of Terry J. DuBose, A Leader of VVAW in Texas by Alice Embree and Renee DuBose
16. Fred Wallace, RIP by Muriel Hogan
17. Dan "Oakbear" Moeller (1951-2018) by John Zutz
18. Trauma (poem) by Gregory Ross
19. 1967 (poem) by Christine Hague
20. For Those Not With Us by David Sandgrund
21. Another Agent Orange Victim: In Memory of Norman (Bill) F. Williams Jr. by Beverly Williams
22. VA - Fayetteville 2012 (poem) by Norman (Bill) F. Williams Jr.
23. Autumn's Story by Autumn W.
24. STUCK by Gregory Ross
25. The Positive Power of Dissent by Paul Nichols
26. Body Count is the Wrong Statistic by Al Wellman
27. Thank You for Your Service: Now Get Lost by Sally-Alice Thompson
28. We Have to Speak the Truth by Patrick Finnegan
29. Trump Visits Troops (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
30. Remembering Jeff Sharlet and Vietnam GI by Marc Levy
31. A Review of Earth Songs II: Poems of Love, Loss and Life by W. D. Ehrhart (reviewer)
32. Photos from the Archives, Part 1 (photos) by VVAW
33. Don't Thank Me for My Service by John Ketwig (reviewer)
34. Imprisoned at Alcatraz - for Opposing War by Elaine Elinson
35. Caverns of the Soul by Donald McNamara (reviewer)
36. Middle Blue by Daniel C. Lavery (reviewer)
37. Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War by John Ketwig (reviewer)
38. My Path Through Paralysis by Dale Hoefer (reviewer)
39. The Great Alone by John Ketwig (reviewer)
40. To The Brink Once Again by John Crandell (reviewer)
41. No Thanks by Bonnie Caracciolo (reviewer)
42. Don't Thank Me For My Service by Larry Kerschner (reviewer)
43. Road to Reconcile by Nadya Williams (reviewer)
44. Hopes and Promises Lost, Stolen and Betrayed: Interest Payments on the 100-Year-Old Debt by Joe Miller (reviewer)
45. Oxy, the Wise Bomb (cartoon) by Bill X. Curmano
46. Monument to Stupidity #1 Sponsorship opportunity by Billy X. Curmano
47. Photos from the Archives, Part 2 (photos) by VVAW
48. Do What You've Got To Do by Dave Cline as told to Richard Stacewicz
49. The Quiet Time by Marc Levy
50. Adventures of a Buffer Technician by Gregory Ross
51. In A Yokohama Hospital On My Way Back Home, 1969 by rg cantalupo
52. The Stolen Story by Tom Gery
53. The Betrayal by Paul J. Giannone
54. Journalists Arrest (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
55. Coming Out of The Footlocker As A Military Dependent by Herb Mintz
56. Soft Targets - Part Two by Joseph Giannini
57. Recollections: Returning to the Delta by Dan New
58. National Security (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger