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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 The VA Treats Me Well by Allen Meece:
Cardiac arrhythmia means the heart can't "keep the beat." The left atrium, an intake chamber at the top of the heart, starts to quiver instead of pulsing smoothly. It's not a heart attack nor is it immediately lethal but it is unsettling and eventually wears out the heart. At the Bruce W. Carter VA Medical Center in Miami, I've had two operations over seven years for this condition, and I feel fine.
I like that hospital. As I step into the lobby, I see other veterans wearing hats with their unit's name or branch of service. I was on a destroyer in the lesser-known Third Tonkin Gulf Incident in 1964, and I wear a ball cap that says USS Edwards, DD 950. The receptionist gives directions to my appointment and says, "Thank you for your service."
I like that appreciation for what I did fifty-five years ago. The Edwards had the dishonorable duty of starting the Vietnam War by threateningly steaming inside North Vietnam's 12-mile offshore limit... Read More
In This Issue:
- VVAW to Sponsor Children's Library in Vietnam by Bill Branson
- Why Are We Still VVAW? by John Lindquist
- From the National Office by Joe Miller
- Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
- Notes from the Boonies by Paul Wisovaty
- No Health Care System is Perfect: But I'll Take VA Health Care by Jack Mallory
- The Hardest Challenge With Homeless and On the Edge Veterans by Jim Murphy
- Either Save the VA or Stop Making Veterans by Jim Wohlgemuth
- On Listening to Veterans by Jack Mallory
- Thank You for Your Service (poem) by W. D. Ehrhart
- The VA Treats Me Well by Allen Meece
- Me and the VA by Leon Wengrzyn
- Students Thank VVAW for Classroom Visit by VVAW
- National Veterans Art Museum (NVAM) Holds First Ever Triennial by Kevin Basl
- Celebrating the Life of Terry J. DuBose, A Leader of VVAW in Texas by Alice Embree and Renee DuBose
- Fred Wallace, RIP by Muriel Hogan
- Dan "Oakbear" Moeller (1951-2018) by John Zutz
- Trauma (poem) by Gregory Ross
- 1967 (poem) by Christine Hague
- For Those Not With Us by David Sandgrund
- Another Agent Orange Victim: In Memory of Norman (Bill) F. Williams Jr. by Beverly Williams
- VA - Fayetteville 2012 (poem) by Norman (Bill) F. Williams Jr.
- Autumn's Story by Autumn W.
- STUCK by Gregory Ross
- The Positive Power of Dissent by Paul Nichols
- Body Count is the Wrong Statistic by Al Wellman
- Thank You for Your Service: Now Get Lost by Sally-Alice Thompson
- We Have to Speak the Truth by Patrick Finnegan
- Trump Visits Troops (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- Remembering Jeff Sharlet and Vietnam GI by Marc Levy
- A Review of Earth Songs II: Poems of Love, Loss and Life by W. D. Ehrhart (reviewer)
- Photos from the Archives, Part 1 (photos) by VVAW
- Don't Thank Me for My Service by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- Imprisoned at Alcatraz - for Opposing War by Elaine Elinson
- Caverns of the Soul by Donald McNamara (reviewer)
- Middle Blue by Daniel C. Lavery (reviewer)
- Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- My Path Through Paralysis by Dale Hoefer (reviewer)
- The Great Alone by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- To The Brink Once Again by John Crandell (reviewer)
- No Thanks by Bonnie Caracciolo (reviewer)
- Don't Thank Me For My Service by Larry Kerschner (reviewer)
- Road to Reconcile by Nadya Williams (reviewer)
- Hopes and Promises Lost, Stolen and Betrayed: Interest Payments on the 100-Year-Old Debt by Joe Miller (reviewer)
- Oxy, the Wise Bomb (cartoon) by Bill X. Curmano
- Monument to Stupidity #1 Sponsorship opportunity by Billy X. Curmano
- Photos from the Archives, Part 2 (photos) by VVAW
- Do What You've Got To Do by Dave Cline as told to Richard Stacewicz
- The Quiet Time by Marc Levy
- Adventures of a Buffer Technician by Gregory Ross
- In A Yokohama Hospital On My Way Back Home, 1969 by rg cantalupo
- The Stolen Story by Tom Gery
- The Betrayal by Paul J. Giannone
- Journalists Arrest (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- Coming Out of The Footlocker As A Military Dependent by Herb Mintz
- Soft Targets - Part Two by Joseph Giannini
- Recollections: Returning to the Delta by Dan New
- National Security (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
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