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 Taken from Two Books Are Better Than One by John Ketwig (reviewer):
Marching to a Silent Tune
by Gerald R. Gioglio
(ACTA Publications, 2022)
Take This War And Shove It!
by Gregory Laxer
(Unbearable Truth Publications, 2021)
I am pleased to report that my summer has been consumed by these two books! They are incredibly similar, which inspired me to combine two reviews into one. These are two memoirs, by two Vietnam-era vets, and they are simply terrific! Be prepared to feel nostalgic, angry, disgusted, and pissed off. Don't get me wrong! They are two very different books, structured differently, but they deliver similar stories from similar perspectives in ways that will bring back a broad spectrum of memories and angst. Both, by the way, were VVAW members at one time.
Gerry Gioglio was raised in a multi-ethnic neighborhood in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he went to Catholic school and was stigmatized as a "spaghetti bender" in a community where everyone was labeled Mic, Wop, Chink, Spic, or Kraut.... Read More
Also In This Issue:
- Stand Up For Your Rights by Bill Branson
- Another VVAW Library Project Launches by VVAW
- Agent Orange's Long, Brutal Reach by Jan Barry
- War's Long Reach (poem) by Jan Barry
- To the Future (poem) by W. D. Ehrhart
- Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
- Ukraine and Vietnam: Nothing is More Precious Than Independence and Liberty by Mike Woloshin
- Bricks to Putin (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- Radio Free Devens by Marc Levy
- Returning by E. C. Streeter
- We Still Need To Oppose Privatizing the VA by John Ketwig
- Coming Home by Fred Samia
- Through the Looking Glass (poem) by W. D. Ehrhart
- Barry Romo in Vietnam, 1972 by as told to Richard Stacewicz
- Report from Hanoi: Vietnam Revisited by Barry Romo
- Coming Home In Vietnam by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- Waging the War Within by Timothy Farley (reviewer)
- Two Reviews of Self-published Books by Min Warburton (reviewer)
- He Was Right (poem) by Larry Booth
- PTSD (poem) by Woody Powell
- Our Veterans by Kim Scipes (reviewer)
- And in the End by Tony Cokely
- Draftee (poem) by rg cantalupo
- Help for Children in Vietnam Who Lost a Parent to COVID-19 by Bhavia Wagner
- Photos from the VVAW Archives by VVAW
- Peace Marching in Vietnam 1993 by Stephen Sossaman
- Back To The Beginning - The Supposed Necessity of It All by John Crandell (reviewer)
- Two Books Are Better Than One by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- Remembrances (poem) by rg cantalupo
- Women Vietnam Veterans: Our Untold Stories by Min Warburton (reviewer)
- 50th Anniversary by Jim Wohlgemuth
- Watching 'Nam Flicks: The Deer Hunter vs. Apocalypse Now in Particular by John Crandell (reviewer)
- Paths of Dissent by Timothy Farley (reviewer)
- Long Shadows by John Fournelle (reviewer)
- Tiger Papa Three by John Bromer (reviewer)
- Cleaned and Oiled (poem) by Woody Powell
- After We Are The Ones To Survive (poem) by Larry Kerschner
- The Last Full Measure by Allen Meece (reviewer)
- Not Funny by Bill Potvin
- Bright White Light (poem) by Larry Kerschner
- Warpath by John Ketwig (reviewer)
- Oxy, the Wise Bomb (cartoon) by Billy X. Curmano
- Michael Gold (1946-2022): Intrepid Veterans Advocate by Edward Damato
- An Extraordinary Veteran and Life: A Daughter Remembers Ashby Leach by Janet Lynn Leach Kelly
- Vet Battles For Better Life: Free Ashby Leach by VVAW
- Second Veteran Art Triennial Dives Into the Meaning of the Long Wars by Rachel Dukes and Aaron Hughes
- Memories of My Time in RVN by Paul Byrnes
- Remembering Olongapo by Al Wellman
- China Beach Surf Club - Part 2 by Joseph Giannini
- Reflecting on Returning to Vietnam by Fred Ptucha
- Big Bloody (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
- Tear by Tear by Michael Orange
- Calling Putin (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
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