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It all started in 1967, with six Vietnam veterans marching together in a peace demonstration. Now, fifty-eight 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:
“Truth is a very peculiar avenue to walk along.”
- Pvt. Cartwell Gettig, 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers
(from “The Small Man” by Serge Bielanko)
It certainly is. Just the other day,
while strolling along that avenue,
I was nearly ...
Taken from "The Avenue of Truth (poem)" by W. D. Ehrhart Read More
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Excerpt From THE VETERAN: Now Online Taken from Right to Refuse: Rebuilding the GI Resistance Movement by Aaron Hughes:
In the midst of the current violent offensive by Elites and the far right, it is important to remember the powerful legacy of our movement and do everything we can to build a GI Resistance movement to meet this moment.
The history of GI resistance makes it profoundly clear that Elites depend on us, our complicity, support, and involvement. They depend on military members complying with their orders and our community members enlisting to fill their ranks. It is in their need for our consent that we have opportunities to mount a profoundly strategic and powerful counter-offensive.
This is why About Face: Veterans Against the War (AFVAW) launched the Right to Refuse campaign this summer. Reasserting that every military member has the right to refuse illegal, unjust, and immoral orders. We want every military member to know that they have rights and options. They have the right, and at times the duty, to refuse illegal orders.... Read More
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