From The Long Reckoning by Elaine Elinson (reviewer):

The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam by George Black (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) This article originally appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books and is reprinted with permission. The walkway to the Mine Action Visitors Center in Quang Tri is lined with lush grasses, swaying palm trees, and blooming flowers in basins. As we drew closer, I noticed something unusual. The plants grew in hollowed-out bomb casings and rusted artillery shells—swords to plowshares. There could be no more perfect place for such a memorial. Quang Tri province, an area the size of Delaware, was subjected to the most intensive aerial assault of the American war in Vietnam and in addition to carpet bombing by B-52s, which dropped 750- and 500-pound bombs on villages, farmland, and forests, raging land battles left the earth littered with a countless number of cluster bomblets, artillery shells, hand grenades, rockets, mortars, and landmines... Read More

In This Issue:

1. Serving the Children of Vietnam by Bill Branson
2. VVAW to Sponsor Third Children's Library in Vietnam by Chuck Theusch
3. What We Can And Can't Afford by rg cantalupo (reviewer)
4. A Soldier's View of the War by Glo Wellman (reviewer)
5. Waging Art by John Ketwig (reviewer)
6. The Combined Action Platoons: The US Marine's Other War in Vietnam by Mike Peterson
7. VVAW 1973-2023: 50 Years Ago by Moses Mora
8. Holes (poem) by W. D. Ehrhart
9. The Ducks on the Hoi An River by rg cantalupo (poem)
10. Okinawa: Where Semper Fi Meets Semper Peace by Aaron M. Davis
11. No Regrets (poem) by W. D. Ehrhart
12. Love Among the Ruins by Marc Levy
13. The Long Reckoning by Elaine Elinson (reviewer)
14. The Wall by Lawrence Markworth
15. What Does a Soldier Really Die For? by Allen "Somerset" Meece
16. Breaking Cadence by John Ketwig (reviewer)
17. The Ghosts Are Still There by John Crandell (reviewer)
18. Anti-war Protest Aboard the USS Truxtun DLGN 35 by Mushroom Montoya
19. An Enigma by CC Barrón
20. Busted: A Vietnam Veteran in Nixon's America by Joe Miller (reviewer)
21. Safe Return by John Ketwig (reviewer)
22. Crazy Vet by Everett Cox
23. Midnight Cargo by Susan Dixon (reviewer)
24. We Are All Sisters and Brothers: A Protester's War and Moral Injury, and Service by Edward Tick
25. One Nation Under Blackmail by John Ketwig (reviewer)
26. Students in Vietnam's Remote Highlands Need Our Help by Bhavia Wagner
27. Photos from the VVAW Archives by VVAW
28. When Johnny Comes Marching Home by VVAW
29. Nixon Attacks Veterans: Assistance Cut by VVAW
30. The War Comes Home: Post-Vietnam Struggle by VVAW
31. The Wheel of Law (poem) by Ho Chi Minh
32. The Vietnam Run by Steve Krug (reviewer)
33. And You Think Sisyphus Had A Problem? by Ed White (reviewer)
34. Unseen Scars from Fifty Years Ago by Doug Mason
35. The Tragic Mistake and PTSD are Facts by Tom Gery
36. The Making of an Army Psychologist by Carlos C. Barrón (reviewer)
37. G.W. Bush's Lies by Bill Potvin
38. 50 Years After Vietnam War's End, It's Time to See Its Role in Spawning MAGA by Jerry Lembcke
39. Dick in Hell by Jeff Danziger (cartoon)
40. Conscripts (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
41. A Long Life and a Little Zen by Tim Farley
42. Oxy, The Smart Bomb (cartoon) by Billy X. Curmano
43. More Photos from the VVAW Archives by VVAW
44. James Edward Murphy: 1945-2023 by Susan Murphy
45. Statue of Liberty Takeover, 1971: An Interview with Jim Murphy by Kevin Basl
46. Leonard Shelton 1964-2023 by Johanna Buwalda
47. The Rose Procession (poem) by Kevin Basl
48. Mesa Refuge Seeks Writers by Elaine Elinson (reviewer)
49. Waging A Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement by Ed Hagerty (reviewer)
50. White Whale (poem) by John Crandell
51. Single Malt Whiskey (poem) by Woody Powell
52. From Dealey Plaza to Gulf of Tonkin: Where Lay The Rub? by John Crandell
53. Deadliest Year by Joseph Giannini
54. Letter to the Editor by Edward Tick
55. On the Road to Miami by Pat Finnegan
56. Big Bloody (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger