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It all started in 1967, with six Vietnam veterans marching together in a peace demonstration. Now, fifty-nine 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.
Will you join us?
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Latest Commentary:
From the National Office
Like a broken record, the Trump follies seem stuck in a groove, and the ruling classes are still dancing to that tune. We are as tired of this playlist as we're sure many of you are. It is hard to be positive while the constant barrage of lies, corrupt...
Taken from "Fight Back. Resist. Stop the Bombings. Stop the Wars." by VVAW National Office Read More
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Excerpt From THE VETERAN: Now Online Taken from The Vietnam War: A Military History by Stephen Sossaman (reviewer):
The Vietnam War: A Military History
by Geoffrey Wawro
(Basic Books, 2024)
A history of America's Vietnam War would be an extremely short book if it were not for feckless presidential careerism, stupendous Pentagon miscalculations, repeated MACV operational blunders, and nearly everyone's stubborn refusal to learn from the obvious.
America's peace movement figured out the truth from the very beginning, as usual, but their understanding and good admonitions did not go unpunished, as usual.
Vietnam was a war of choice, and that's the first sentence in Geoffrey Wawro's relentlessly critical The Vietnam War: A Military History. He might have added that it was a war about regime preservation, even though no one in Washington much liked the regime or its successors.
This is the Vietnam War book I would first recommend to a new friend or send to an interested adult child or grandchild.... Read More
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