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THE VETERAN is the newspaper of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc. In 1971 and 1972 it was published as 1st Casualty. From 1973 to 1975, it was published as Winter Soldier. In 1975, it became THE VETERAN.
THE VETERAN was the first voice of Vietnam veterans in America, and has consistently addressed issues of peace and justice. Original articles on Post Traumatic Stress and Agent Orange have appeared since its first year of publication.
THE VETERAN still continues publication two times a year. Articles from recent issues are available below.
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 From Trading One Uniform for Another: The Military to Prison Pipeline by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon (reviewers):
Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration
by Jason Higgins
(University of Massachusetts Press, 2024)
Like old soldiers around the country, a group of former service members gathered in Crest Hill, Illinois, to remember fallen comrades on Memorial Day, 2024. Several months later, The Veteran, a newspaper published by Vietnam Veterans Against the War, ran a photo of the event they attended. It shows a multi-generational group of white, Black, and Latino men lined up proudly between two flags.
In his dispatch to the paper, African-American Navy veteran Robert Maury explained why everyone in the Stateville Veterans Group was wearing government-issued clothing of a non-military sort. As Maury wrote, "This was the first time in the history of Stateville, if not the first time in the history of the state of Illinois, that incarcerated veterans were allowed to organize a Memorial Day ceremony in a maximum-security prison... Read More
In This Issue:
- Nazis, Fascists, and Oligarchs Must be Defeated by VVAW National Office
- VVAW Library and Learning Center Updates by VVAW
- Musk Calls Historical Helpers To Perfect the Nazi Salute (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
- Trump Cuts Aid to Vietnam, then Restores - Some! by Nadya Williams
- Saving the VA: A Social Worker's Perspective by Aimee Potter
- We Must All Speak Up Before VA Health Care Is Gutted by John Ketwig
- Letter to the Editor by John Lindquist
- Neville Chamberlain Republicans by Mike Woloshin
- For Pointman: Faint Praise For A Nation's Plebiscite (poem) by John Crandell
- "We've Been Betrayed!" by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon
- What We Can and Can't Afford by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- Trigger Finger (poem) by Jim Hale
- 26 August 71 by Marc Levy
- Darkness by Tony Cokely
- Trump Throws Zelensky Out of the White House (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- Trading One Uniform for Another: The Military to Prison Pipeline by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon (reviewers)
- Everything is Going to be Okay by Lawrence Markworth
- Barry Romo is not Dead (poem) by Alan Donohue
- Getting Out of That Place (poem) by John Crandell
- The Pope Accused of Misrepresentation by Bill Potvin
- 1965: A Sailor Recalls the First Year of the "American War" by Joe Miller
- Romeo and Tuyet: A Love Story by Jane Barton Griffith
- Milwaukee Save the VA Rally by VVAW
- Photos from the VVAW Archives by VVAW
- Remembering Joan Davis: 50-year Member of VVAW by VVAW
- On Teaching High School Students About the Vietnam War by Joan Davis
- Tribute to Jim Fallon by Walt Nygard
- Division of Labor (poem) by W. D. Ehrhart
- Albert Penta's Navy Service Saga by Albert Penta
- Mitch Kuhn - Presente! by VVAW
- The Healing Power of the Pen by John Brennan
- For Aged Vets and Non-vets Alike Who are Treading Near the Edge (poem) by Woody Powell
- From Bullets to Books by William L. Richter (reviewer)
- The Amazing Adventures of Captain Embers by Phil Marshall (reviewer)
- Mr. Musk's SpaceX Company Blows Up Two Rockets in a Row (poem) by Jeff Danziger
- Almost Home by Marc Levy
- Spilling Red by Emily Sanner
- Pieces (poem) by Woody Powell
- Falling by E.C. Streeter
- Oxy, the Smart Bomb (cartoon) by Billy X. Curmano
- The Bloodbath That Wasn't by W. D. Ehrhart (reviewer)
- The Relentless Call From Vietnam by Ngan Nguyen (reviewer)
- Looking for Duong Thu Huong by John Conroy
- Ravens on a Wire by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- Oh, How We All Sang Along: Continued Thoughts on LBJ by John Crandell
- To Janice, These Many Years Later (poem) by rg cantalupo
- Reflections on Resisting the Draft: Connecting to Vietnam Veterans by Ted Scharf
- Letter to the Editor by Richard H. Skiba, Jr.
- Teaching Map-Reading To Draftees (poem) by rg cantalupo
- From 2.5 pages of text in a Chomsky paperback* (poem) by John Crandell
- The Price of Macabre is Written on the Wall (poem) by Mike Hastie
- A Bad Morning on the Da Nang Bridge by Richard Fleming
- Old No Guts (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
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