Poet, author and Vietnam veteran Don Blackburn is seen in this documentary about Agent Orange. Blackburn is a Bandon resident when he isn’t in Vietnam working at his favorite charity Friendship Village an organization...
Read MoreHe received his draft notice before he finished law school, was made a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Force, and was sent to the Mekong Delta where he was the officer in charge of a 40-member airbase security detachment assigned to protect a South Vietnamese Airbase.
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Michael Scherer does an excellent job of dissecting toture advocate Mark Thiessenattack on Wikileaks. Scherer looks back at history, namely the release of the Pentagon Papers that helped turn the war. The Pentagon Papers showed...
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And almost 60,000 American GIs died as a consequence. Robert McNamara who died Monday and is regarded as the architect of the disastrous Vietnam War deliberately misled President Johnson and did not inform him that the Gulf of Tonkin crisis had not occurred. His actions as Secretary of Defense also cost the lives of millions of Vietnamese civilians and contamination from Agent Orange causes life threatening birth defects to this day.
Perhaps McCain’s years in the Hanoi Hilton were Karma, penance for abandoning ship when the USS Forrestal fire cost the lives of 134 sailors. This is a fascinating read, from Truthdig. In considering the 1967 catastrophe,...
Read More“War is a racket.†So spoke Marine Brigadier General Smedley D Butler, America’s most decorated general. “It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only...
Read MoreWriter Robert Fisk discusses the semantics employed by George Bush. In particular, apparently to ‘re-educate’ the public about the truth in Iraq, Bush’s use of words beginning with ‘re’. Note, too,...
Read MoreAs always, Zinn weaves the threads of imperialism by noting the similarities to the Iraq occupation to Vietnam in this collection published at Asia Times. When I read the hundreds of pages of the Pentagon Papers entrusted to me...
Read MoreI have said it before, I really like this man. For those who do not know his history go here. Senator Gravel helped end the draft and read 4000 pages of the Pentagon papers into the Congressional Record, often stopping to wipe...
Read MoreA fellow peace activist wrote this and gave me permission to post it here. It is moving and thoughtful and attends to the too little attention given by the mainstream media upon these gut wrenching testimonies of our wounded...
Read MoreOne of the first conscientious objectors was Camilo Mejia who is now on the board of IVAW, Iraq Veterans Against the War. He has helped organize this Winter Soldier event because he feels it is his patriotic duty to defend the...
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