Taken from The History of VVAW National Newspapers by Barry Romo:
In your hands is Volume 50 of VVAW's national newspaper, The Veteran. It started off as First Casualty, then Winter Soldier, and then became The Veteran. We decided to look back at the early days of VVAW's newspapers and get memories from some of the key organizers who worked on the paper over the years. See page 11 for recollections by Pete Zastrow and next issue for memories from Ed Damato and Bill Shunas.
I started working on the paper in 1972, when I got elected to the VVAW National Office. It was still called First Casualty. Prior to that, my local chapter and regional people published GI newspapers. In San Bernardino we organized GIs from 29 Palms Marine Base, March Air Force Base (B-52 Base) and so had a little experience already in publishing a newspaper.
The GI papers weren't chicken shit papers. The bases had military papers by Airmen and GI's and Marines, things like the March Beacon. The anti-war GI paper was called the March Bacon.... Read More
