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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

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Excerpt From  THE VETERAN:  Now Online

Taken from Lyndon: In a Winter of Our Discontent by John Crandell:

PART 3: (The third of a three-part dissection of LBJ) Ol' Hang Dog, it was who sent us halfway around the world to kill or be killed in the jungle. Some made money off the black market at base camp; back home in Texas, others made a boatload of money off of Vietnam Inc. Ten years earlier, scriptwriter Bud Schulberg and director Elia Kazan had visited Capitol Hill in an effort to discern human nature. They interviewed Lyndon Johnson in the Old Senate Office Building. Johnson admitted guilelessly, "That TV camera is right in your face… If you don't hold your eyes steady, people will say 'he's shifty'." Nine years onward, sixty-seven days before the August 2nd, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, Johnson put in a call to Richard Russell, his senatorial confidant in discrimination and disenfranchisement of yesteryear. We have long been told that LBJ was vexed over the prospect of war in Vietnam.... Read More