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 Taken from Vietnam Journal: Willimantic - 11.10.00 by Marc Levy:
The bus ride from New York's frenetic Port Authority to sleepy Willimantic took four sleepless hours and cost twenty-nine dollars. The next day a small college would host a conference on Vietnam, known elsewhere as the war against the Americans.
Arriving early, I attended a small gathering at Curbstone Press, the name a perfect eponym, the squat building's wood plank facade smooth as bone.
Outside, beneath an autumn moon, two American combat writers swayed and chatted. I waved hello, walked forward to great Kodiak hugs and breathy greetings. "Let's go inside," one man said. We stagger-stepped into the grungy, low ceilinged, ramshackle house, musty with grime and love.
Under the cold glare of fluorescent lights, a dozen greying men cheerfully conversed while scooping large portions of glutinous moussaka or starchy quiche onto thick paper plates. Two cannonball-shaped chocolate fudge pies sat curiously untouched.
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Also In This Issue:
- Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement on the "War Against Terrorism" by VVAW National Office
- Questioning the Anti-Terrorist War in the Philippines by Orlando Tizon
- From the National Office by Joe Miller
- Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
- Notes from the Boonies by Paul Wisovaty
- The Show Goes On: VVAW Honors Veterans in the Concrete Bunker by Ann Goethals
- First Winter Soldier Service Award Presented by Barry Romo
- Chicago Standdown Winter 2001 by VVAW
- Veterans Day, Milwaukee by Bob Riggle
- Open Letter to the New York Metro Area Congressional Delegation by VVAW, Clarence Fitch Chapter
- An Interview with Barry Willdorf by Jeanne Friedman
- The Veteran as Nigger by Raymond Parrish
- Terrorism Funded by USA, A Colombian Friend of VVAW Murdered by Barry Romo
- Returning to Vietnam in 2002 by John Poole
- Where Do We Go From Here? by W. D. Ehrhart
- My View by John Zutz
- New Definitions of Reality by Horace Coleman
- Letters to VVAW by VVAW
- In Memory of Chaim Shatan: the Human Being, the Organizer, the Artist by Arthur Egendorf
- James Edward Pechin (1947-2002) by Joe Bangert
- Paula Barry by David Cline
- The Corner of the Dead: Ayacucho, Peru by Louis De Benedette
- International Criminal Court Imminent by Carl Nyberg
- There Was No Music Soundtrack in Vietnam by Paul Cox (Reviewer)
- Only Those Who Have Died Will Ever See the End of War by Bob Riggle (Reviewer)
- Afghanistan Veteran Once Removed by Dave Curry (Reviewer)
- Vietnam Journal: Willimantic - 11.10.00 by Marc Levy
- With Apologies to Lincoln and JFK by Mike Gehl
- Army/Navy Surplus by Gregory Ross
- Someone Else's Recollection by Dave Curry
- Who Deserves Pay Raises? by Sandra J. Fulton
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