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