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 Taken from Myth and Memory by Kim Scipes (reviewer):
Hardhats, Hippies and Hawks: The Vietnam Anti-war Movement as Myth and MemoryBy Penny Lewis
(ILR Press, 2013)
Penny Lewis has written an important book about the Vietnam anti-war movement, challenging important myths and received memories that have affected US politics ever since. The myth, on which much received wisdom is based, is that it was upper middle class folks and elites who opposed the war, while working class Americans supported it. The reality, she quotes from Howard Zinn, is that "throughout the Vietnam War, Americans with only a grade-school education were much stronger for withdrawal than Americans with a college education."
Lewis spends considerable time supporting her argument. While she notes that initially the anti-war movement was populated and led mainly by activists from elite universities, this didn't last long.... Read More
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- From the National Office by Bill Branson
- Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
- A Tale of Two Veterans' Day Events by Meg Miner
- Basic Training for Our Mideast Policy (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
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- Worth Fighting For by Aaron Davis (reviewer)
- They Still Suffer: The Children of Iraq by Jennifer Cole
- Praying at the Altar (poem) by W. D. Ehrhart
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- American Reckoning by Daniel C. Lavery (reviewer)
- 1975 VVAW Demo at the VA (photos) by VVAW
- Myth and Memory by Kim Scipes (reviewer)
- War Is Not A Game by Gerald R. Gioglio (reviewer)
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- Oxy, The Wise Bomb (cartoon) by Billy X. Curmano
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- The Science of Absolution (Atonement) Dedicate to Michael (poem) by Gregory Ross
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- Song of the Badlands (poem) by Bob McGlynn
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- Dewey Canyon IV Photos by VVAW
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- Letter to the Editor by G.I. Joe
- Winter Truce (photo) by VVAW
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- Letter to the Editor by Thomas F. Barton
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- RECOLLECTIONS: Spring of '72 by John Crandell
- VVAW July 4 Demo in Washington DC by VVAW
- Lieutenant Cotton (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- From the Archives (photos) by VVAW
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