From Smart Fish Don't Bite by John Ketwig (reviewer):

Smart Fish Don't Bite by W.D. Ehrhart (Moonstone Press, 2025) Bill Ehrhart is at it again, but this latest book is different. It's playful, irreverent, interesting, and fun to read. As always, Ehrhart's writing is crisp and clear, but this time he is clearly bothered by approaching 80 years old, being a cancer survivor, and being retired. A lot of Vietnam veterans will relate to those feelings! He starts the book with a Foreword, stating, "I have been increasingly able and inclined to have some fun with my writing." A few paragraphs later, he writes that he is not "inclined to worry much about how these more or less end-of-life poems will be received." He needn't worry... Read More

In This Issue:

1. A Continuing Saga: We Won't Get Fooled Again by VVAW National Office
2. Building for Future Generations: VVAW Library and Learning Center Updates by VVAW
3. The Veteran Info by VVAW
4. Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
5. Stop the VA Cuts and Stand with Ukraine by John Lindquist
6. Adolph Speaks (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
7. Trump's Executive Order Attacking Veterans and Others by Aimee Potter
8. VA Job Cut Threat:Should Labor and Vets Declare Victory or Keep Up the Fight? by Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early
9. Decomposed Granite (poem) by John Crandell
10. "CASREP" Is Navy For "Casualty Report" (poem) by Carl Nyberg
11. The Wrong People Learned the Wrong Lessons by W. D. Ehrhart
12. Following Orders (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
13. Veterans and Unions Unite to Save the VA by Ken Nielsen and Michael Applegate
14. A Labor/Vet Protest:DC Rally and Local Events Defend VA Care on D-Day by Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early
15. VVAW and Sartorial Dissent in the GI Movement by Lily Moreno-Sheridan
16. Right to Refuse: Rebuilding the GI Resistance Movement by Aaron Hughes
17. Killing Babies: Vietnam 1968 (poem) by Sonny Williams
18. Finally in Each War (poem) by Larry Kerschner
19. A Marine Talks to My Heart by Cesar Hernandez
20. Write Your Mother by John Zutz
21. Putin's Imperial Ambitions in Ukraine Threatens World War III by Mike Woloshin
22. Permission to Walk in Peace by Jerry Neece (reviewer)
23. Vietnam Today, After 50 Years of Peace, With Other Wars Raging by Nadya Williams
24. Empowering the Poor Amidst Big Changes in Vietnam by Bhavia Wagner
25. Photos from the VVAW Archives by VVAW
26. Remembering Jack Elder by Tom Wetzler
27. Jimmy in Saigon by Sarah Axel
28. Surviving the Long Wars by Meg Miner (reviewer)
29. Always Resisting by John Bromer (reviewer)
30. I Was Arrested for the First Time in My Life … And It Was Worth It by Chet Hill
31. The Wall (poem) by Eva Hagenhofer
32. Connect the Dots (poem) by Carl Nyberg
33. Hope by E.C. Streeter
34. All I Have Left Are Rhetorical Questions by Jim Wohlgemuth
35. Scorpions' Dance by John Ketwig (reviewer)
36. Red by Tony Cokely
37. Five Names on a Granite Slab by Tom Farley (reviewer)
38. A Disturbing but Welcome Change of Perspective: From The Vietnam War to The American War by Mike Budd
39. Trumpster Fire (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
40. Our Nation's Flag With The Cost Of Freedom (painting) by James Wachtendonk
41. Oxy, the Smart Bomb (cartoon) by Billy X. Curmano
42. Waging Peace: From Vietnam to Volgograd by Jack Mallory (reviewer)
43. Smart Fish Don't Bite by John Ketwig (reviewer)
44. A Veteran's Day Reminiscence by Roger Thorndike
45. Profit-Mode Diplomacy by Allen Somerset Meece
46. Memories of Nam by Maurice Simon
47. My Daughter's Two Birthdays by Joe Miller
48. Letter to the Editor by Paul Hellweg
49. Letter to the Editor by Tom Charles
50. Land of Smiles by John Ketwig (reviewer)
51. What American Youth Need To Know (poem) by Mike Hastie
52. The Kit Carson Scout by Richard Fleming
53. Squirrels and the War (poem) by Dan L. Richter
54. Hospital Targets (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
55. VVAW Memories by Mike Woloshin
56. Putin Talks (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger