Taken from VVAW Still Teaching the American War in Vietnam: On Burns/Novick "The Vietnam War" by Joe Miller:
From the National Office
For fifty years, VVAW has had three continuing missions: agitation to end our war and stop wars like it; therapy in action and discussion for those who fought the war and needed to deal with what was then called Post-Vietnam Syndrome (now PTSD); and, ultimately, education for our members and supporters to try to make sense out of the senselessness of our war and to teach the public about what we experienced and how to be on guard against future wars of that type. VVAW has continued those missions since our earliest days; we set them out clearly in the first issue of our official publication The 1st Casualty (www.vvaw.org/veteran)
VVAW in Washington DC, July 4, 1974.
In the early 1970s, while the war was still being fought, VVAW members traveled to northern Vietnam as part of peace delegations.... Read More
