Following my discharge from the Navy in February 1968, after seven years of service, my family and I moved back to the Chicago area. I found an overnight job that would help me to support my wife and daughter. I enrolled as a full-time student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Balancing classes with a full-time job and trying to keep my family together, I looked to join whatever anti-war work I could find time for.
Joe Miller, Memorial Day 2000, Chicago.
My wife and I participated in the April 27th march from Grant Park to Daley Plaza, the so-called "dry-run" for Chicago cops in preparation for the Democratic Convention later that summer. That first peace march introduced me to anti-war veterans from World War Two and Korean generations. I did not yet highlight my own veteran status. I had the Vietnam Service ribbon from participation in Tonkin Gulf actions during 1964 to 1966, but did not "feel" like a veteran at this time. [See: www.... Read More
