From N. E. Scheppers, Remembered by John Crandell:

I tried to persuade him to volunteer back when I had, eighteen months earlier in that sordid month of May 1968, the largest monthly draft of the entire war. He could only see doing two years max. I warned him what would happen. And after completing AIT at Ord, he got what I'd feared and ended up on point with the 1st of the 5th of the First Air Cav, got there a week before Christmas of 1969. Norb, on a trip to Rosarito Beachin Baja, Mexico, August of 1972. I've already written of his stubborn, inordinate performance, featured in the Spring 2015 issue of The Veteran. To his credit, it can be added that Norbert Scheppers of Sunland, California did not report on time as ordered, in Oakland, to be bused to Travis Air Force Base for duty in an absurd effort in a foreign land. Instead, all of the discussions we'd had as we had driven back and forth to Valley College seem to have swayed him... Read More

In This Issue:

1. VVAW Still Teaching the American War in Vietnam: On Burns/Novick "The Vietnam War" by Joe Miller
2. VVAW 50th Celebrations by VVAW
3. Available Soon: VVAW 50 Years of Struggle by VVAW
4. Fighting Racists Then and Now by Barry Romo
5. Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
6. Notes from the Boonies by Paul Wisovaty
7. Anti-war Veterans Stand Up with Unions to Save the VA by Robert Clack
8. VVAW Statement Read Outside Trump's American Legion Speech in Reno by Anthony Shafton
9. What is History? by Jack Mallory
10. Vietnam Memories by Dan New
11. Support for Nazis is Not New to America by John Ketwig
12. VVAW 50th Gatherings (photos) by VVAW
13. Remembering Chukia Lawton by Mark Hartford
14. Horace Coleman: May 4, 1943 - September 16, 2017 by The Coleman Family
15. In Memory of Horace Coleman by W. D. Ehrhart
16. Soul Wounds: Healing and True Peace by Daniel Corral
17. Steve Somerstein - Presente! by Ben Chitty
18. N. E. Scheppers, Remembered by John Crandell
19. Photos from the Archives by VVAW
20. Giong by Larry Craig (reviewer)
21. Why I Support VVAW by Ray O'Loughlin
22. Stars, Bars and Stripes: A History of Incarcerated Veterans Since Vietnam by Jason A. Higgins
23. Taking a Knee for Peace: Recalling the Veterans Who Sat by Jerry Lembcke
24. Walkin' the Talk (Therapy) by J. Michael Orange
25. What I Knew of Him (poem) by Christine E. Black
26. The Sound of PTSD by Gregory Ross
27. Dancing in the Streets (poem) by W. D. Ehrhart
28. Teaching and Traveling in Vietnam by Kim Scipes
29. W.D. Ehrhart in Conversation by Sanford Kelson (reviewer)
30. Hell No by John Ketwig (reviewer)
31. Tree of Smoke by Shelley Masar (reviewer)
32. 11 a.m. (poem) by Mary Ann Starus
33. 21 Months, 24 Days by Dan Lavery (reviewer)
34. Homage to Viet Vets (poem) by Jay Wenk
35. Nothing Ever Dies by Steve Krug (reviewer)
36. Hue 1968 by Jack Mallory (reviewer)
37. Mary's Mosaic by John Ketwig (reviewer)
38. Woofs of War! (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
39. A Vietnam Era Chicago Story by Joe Miller (reviewer)
40. Ken Burns' "Vietnam": A Legacy for War as a "Noble Cause" by rg cantalupo (reviewer)
41. Soldiers in Revolt by Alan Stolzer (reviewer)
42. Renunciation by John Ketwig (reviewer)
43. McNamara's Mistake by Hamilton Gregory
44. Oxy, the Wise Bomb (cartoon) by Billy X. Curmano
45. When Veterans Protested the Vietnam War by Jan Barry
46. Thank You VVAW by Joe Petzel
47. Photos from the Archives: Early 1970s by VVAW
48. It Still Hurts by Jim Wohlgemuth
49. Remembering the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 50 Years Later by Al Wellman
50. Maggot Days by Gerald R. Gioglio
51. A Letter From My Soul, A Letter From My Heart by Gregory Ross
52. Bitch by Joseph Giannini
53. In the Cross-hairs of Racism's Killing Zone, 1968 by rg cantalupo
54. Scognamilio by Richard Brummett
55. The Veteran is the Key to Peace by Stanley Campbell
56. This is Peru by Louis De Benedette
57. Living with War Everyday (poem) by Barry Reece
58. Another Anti-War Poem (poem) by Roger Forkel
59. RECOLLECTIONS: 1972 Republican Convention by William Shelton
60. Trump's War (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger