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 Taken from I Support the Troops by Michael Hureaux:
Long Binh, Vietnam. My bookcase holds a cigar box, painted red and yellow acrylic and decorated with blue swirls by my wife Kathleen. Inside the box is a handful of letters sent my mother from my pops when he was stationed in Long Binh, Vietnam. The letters comment on the beauty of the Vietnamese people and countryside; they run the gamut of things like counsel on personal finances, then as always a nightmare for my parents. There are a few lovingly strained hellos to my two sisters aged seven and five and myself, then ten years of age; and some bewildered commentary on a Vietnamese defense called the Tet Offensive.
I rarely take them down and look at them. The box of letters is a personal shrine to a man I knew for a very brief time. Pops retired from the army when he was fifty-one, having served in Europe and the Pacific during World War II, in Korea, and in Vietnam. He died four years after retirement.
I remember a fiercely complicated individual, a shy, soft-spoken brother.... Read More
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- Notes from the Boonies by Paul Wisovaty
- My View by John Zutz
- Anti-War March in DC by John Zutz
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- War In Charge cartoon by Jeff Danziger
- Women Rally Against War by Brooke Anderson
- Oxy The Smart Bomb cartoon by Billy X. Curmano
- Violence Always Goes Too Far by Susan Ives
- Quit Making More Combat Veterans by Robert M. Bowman
- At the Front cartoon by Jeff Danziger
- Statement of Pvt. Wilfredo Torres by Wilfredo Torres
- Reporting War by David Doyle
- Spring Break: Operation Dire Distress by Bob Riggle
- Petition from Veterans Rejected at White House by Jan Barry
- Total Support by Ben Chitty
- I Support the Troops by Michael Hureaux
- Support Our Troops by Fred Samia
- Spitting on the Troops: Old Myth, New Rumors by Jerry Lembcke
- Chickenhawks, Draft Dodgers and War Resisters by Fritz Efaw
- The War Against Ourselves by An Interview with Major Doug Rokke
- The Big Picture on Veterans' Health Care by Bruce E. Parry
- Lynda Van Devanter (1947-2002) by VVAW
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- Michael L. Reed (1947-2002) by Rachel Garcia
- Letter from Vietnam by William Kelly
- Songs of Protest by Bill Homans
- An Open Letter From the Troops You Support by Todd Arena & Jonathan Hustad
- Letter to the Editor by Tony Georges III
- Letter to the Editor by Douglas Nelson
- Letter to the Editor by Richard Pinkerton
- Frequently Asked Questions by Paul Wisovaty
- Captain Powell cartoon by Jeff Danziger
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