From Grave Removal in Northern Quang Tri Province, late 1966 by Paul Nichols:

Early during my tour of duty in I Corps, I was sent to the outskirts, barely within the coiled concertina wire perimeter to guard Vietnamese peasants while they dug up remnants of buried family members. Ominous tree lines stared from across a rice paddy expanse. "Our" battalion area was in the expansion process on their land. Many Vietnamese graves located in this area of the Dong Ha combat base had been indiscriminately bulldozed away, causing diplomatic concerns somewhere up the line between South Vietnamese and US governments. To help appease such concerns, grave removal was ordered when possible under close guard by Marines of the 3rd Engineer Battalion. As I stood near them with my rifle in hand, carefully watching their every move, I had no empathy for what they were forced to do. I did not know of ancestor reverence which, linked to ancient Confucian beliefs, was of monumental importance to Vietnamese culture... Read More

In This Issue:

1. VVAW Library Project Updates - Spring 2023 by Chuck Theusch
2. While Comrades Fade, Hard Lessons Remain by Bill Branson
3. Memories of Marty by VVAW
4. Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
5. Updates from Across the Pond by John Lindquist
6. Going AWOL by rg cantalupo
7. Mekong Medicine by John Ketwig (reviewer)
8. At Smedley Butler's Grave (poem) by W. D. Ehrhart
9. Afterwards (poem) by Woody Powell
10. Dan Ellsberg: A Personal Reflection by W. D. Ehrhart
11. Ninth Solidarity Tour to Vietnam by Veterans of the American War by Nadya Williams
12. Please Come to Chicago: Notes on the 2023 Veteran Art Triennial and Summit by Walter Nygard
13. Passing Time: Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran Against the War by John Ketwig (reviewer)
14. My Road to "Spookville" by Joe Miller
15. My Young Friend An by Tony Cokely
16. I Am the Wall (poem) by Hurf Sheldon
17. America and Vietnam, 1954 to 1963: The Road to War by John Ketwig (reviewer)
18. If You Ain't Cheatin', You Ain't Tryin' by John Zutz (reviewer)
19. Photos from the VVAW Archives by VVAW
20. MASH Doctor in Vietnam by Steve Krug (reviewer)
21. What We Teach by Alan Donohue
22. Putin's War Strategy (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
23. Fifty Years Ago by Allen Meece
24. The Sixth Extinction (poem) by Woody Powell
25. Alone With Just Numbers (poem) by David Connolly
26. Corn, Coal & Yellow Ribbons by Susan Dixon (reviewer)
27. Sunlight on Brass (poem) by Marc Levy
28. Nice To Be Special (poem) by Rich Peters
29. Wounded Knee (poster) by VVAW
30. VVAW Remembers Native American Struggle by Ann Hirschman
31. Wounded Knee Bust by VVAW
32. 1973: A Year of Unity and of Struggle by VVAW
33. The Horror, The Horror . . . by Ed White (reviewer)
34. And Then Your Soul Is Gone by Jim Wohlgemuth (reviewer)
35. Southern Voices by Susan Dixon (reviewer)
36. Coyote Weather by John Ketwig (reviewer)
37. Dear John by Edward Hagerty (reviewer)
38. Putin Promoting Russian Adoptions of Captured Ukrainian Orphans (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
39. VA Admission (poem) by Jan Barry
40. Oxy, The Smart Bomb (cartoon) by Billy X. Curmano
41. More Photos From the VVAW Archives by VVAW
42. A Tribute to John Prados by Ellen Pinzur
43. Louis De Benedette, ¡Presente! by VVAW
44. Memories of Steve Klinkhammer by John Zutz
45. Cornelius Hawkridge Obituary by John Ketwig
46. In Russia Everyone is Reading Orwell's Ninteen Eighty-four (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
47. Grave Removal in Northern Quang Tri Province, late 1966 by Paul Nichols
48. From Dealey Plaza to Gulf of Tonkin by John Crandell
49. Keep Singing by George Critch
50. Letter to the Editor by Rashid Patch
51. Some Things You Never Forget. . .Or Forgive by Roger Quindel
52. Ammunition (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger