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	Vietnam Veterans Against the War
		The group charged that Kerry’s war record was a fraud and that his activities as a spokesperson for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW)--particularly his famous speech before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971--had "dishonored" the memory of Americans who died fighting the war in Vietnam.
		VIETNAM VETERANS are "quite different from veterans of earlier wars," observed Ralph Nader in 1973--then at the height of his fame as a consumer advocate.
		The war that the U.S. fought in Vietnam was a war against a people who had been trying to free their country from foreign domination for many decades.
	www.socialistworker.org /2004-2/512/512_08_VVAW.shtml (1867 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement - Wikisource
		And to attempt to justify the loss of one American life in Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos by linking such loss to the preservation of freedom, which those misfits supposedly abuse, is to use the height of criminal hypocrisy, and it is that kind of hypocrisy which we feel has torn this country apart.
		We veterans can only look with amazement on the fact that this country has been unable to see there is absolutely no difference between ground troops and a helicopter crew, and yet people have accepted a differentiation fed them by the administration.
		Gradual Development of Concern About Vietnam War In the beginning, back in the times that I mentioned when we first supported the French and throughout the 1950's up until the 1960's, this whole matter was not very much on the minds of anybody in the Congress.
	en.wikisource.org /wiki/Vietnam_Veterans_Against_the_War_Statement (12504 words)

	"Stolen Valor"
		Veteran Chuck Onan, for example, claimed he had attended parachute, frogman, and jungle survival schools and had received special training in torture techniques, such as stripping women prisoners, spreading their legs, and driving pointed sticks into their vaginas.
		The VVAW's use of fake witnesses and the failure to cooperate with military authorities and to provide crucial details of the incidents further cast serious doubt on the professed desire to server the causes of justice and humanity." Lewy wrote.
		In April 1971, the VVAW staged a demonstration it called Dewey Canyon III, a "limited incursion into the country of Congress." The protest was named after an operation in 1969 that sent elements of the 3rd Marines Division into Laos.
	4dw.net /jqueen/valor.html (2348 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Against the War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		VVAW describes itself as a national veterans' organization that campaigns for peace, justice, and the rights of all United States military veterans.
		VVAW was founded by six Vietnam war veterans, including Jan "Barry" Crumb, Mark Donnelly, and David Braum, in New York City in June 1967 after they marched together in the April 15, 1967 Spring Mobilization to End the War anti-war demonstration with over 400,000 other protesters.
		Operation POW, organized by the VVAW in Massachusetts, got its name from the group's concern that Americans were prisoners of the Vietnam War, as well as to honor American POWs held captive by North Vietnam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vietnam_Veterans_Against_the_War (3225 words)

	Vietnam War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		To a degree, the Vietnam War was a "proxy war" between the U.S. and its Western allies on the side of the RVN, with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China supporting the DRV on the other.
		The chief cause of the war was the failure of Vietnamese nationalists, in the form of the Viet Minh, to gain control of southern Vietnam both during and after their struggle for independence from France in the First Indochina War of 1946-1954.
		The Vietnam War was finally concluded on 30 April 1975, with the fall of the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon to North Vietnamese forces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vietnam_War (11195 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement by John Kerry
		Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement by John Kerry to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations
		And to attempt to justify the loss of one American life in Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos by linking such loss to the preservation of freedom, which those misfits supposedly abuse, is to us the height of criminal hypocrisy, and it is that kind of hypocrisy which we feel has torn this country apart.
		They wanted everything to do with the war, particularly with this foreign presence of the United States of America, to leave them alone in peace, and they practiced the art of survival by siding with whichever military force was present at a particular time, be it Viet Cong, North Vietnamese or American.
	lists.village.virginia.edu /sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/VVAW_Kerry_Senate.html (1125 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Against the War: Military Counseling: Introduction
		Vietnam Veterans Against the War, VVAW, is a national veterans organization founded in 1967 to voice the growing opposition among returning GI's to the war in Indochina.
		VVAW breaks down the barriers to this therapy by taking vets to speak to students, parents, and other individuals and groups who want to discuss militarism in our society and military recruiters in our schools.
		VVAW is one of the few groups who are helping vets who end up with less than honorable discharges get them “upgraded.” Recent studies reported that one third of homeless men are veterans, and that there may be as many as 250,000 homeless vets nationwide.
	www.vvaw.org /mc (1096 words)

	U.S. Mayor Article \| Remarks by John Kerry, Member, Vietnam Veterans Against the War & John O'Neill, Member, Vietnam ...
		Kerry was representing Vietnam Vetrans against the war at the Meeting in Philadelphia in June of 1971.
		As a veteran representing those who are against the war, I am here to try to impart a personal feeling about it because somehow I think at some point in this country we have allowed ourselves to forget what it is really all about.
		We veterans who are against the war don't believe that the men in Washington are necessarily evil.
	www.usmayors.org /uscm/us_mayor_newspaper/documents/04_12_04/kerry_oneill.asp (1318 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Against the War
		Veterans who fought the war in Vietnam came home to pro- test that same war and their involvement proved to be an important component to the anti-war movement.
		While the press was slow to report the activities of anti- war veterans the Nixon administration clearly understood their potential power.
		So the Veterans came to the steps of the Supreme Court to stand in line, say something at the podium if they wished, and then throw their medals away.
	webpages.charter.net /dmarin/cbwbeta/dissent.htm (680 words)

	ZNet \|Iraq \| Veterans Against the War
		I was definitely critical of the war before it began and I protested it during the build up, after it started, and until I left.
		We were eighteen months into the war and the Iraqi hospital still didn't have glass in some of its windows and only one type of antibiotic.
		Really, there are two wars going on right now; one to end the actual war and another one to get the men and women that return the care that they deserve.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=9127 (3098 words)

	A VETERAN'S EXPERIENCE: VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR
		Vietnam Veterans against the War was organizing a protest against the war and they wanted someone who had been a chaplain to lead a memorial service at Arlington.
		Veteran after veteran took the floor to recount things they had done or seen for which they felt pain, sadness, guilt, remorse, and mostly anger.
		It is sad that brother veterans, who might be expected to recognize that others who have faced the danger of combat for their country have, of all people, a clearcut right and duty to voice their opnions and tell their stories, instead have turned against their brother veterans to silence and discredit them.
	www.vietnamveteranministers.org /chaplain/vvaw.htm (1210 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW)
		Viet Nam Veterans Against the War was founded in 1967 and, at the height of its effectiveness in the late 1960s, claimed over 40,000 members.
		The VVAW of the 1990s is quite different from the VVAW of the 1960s, but still maintains an active presence as a veterans' peace organization.
		Both groups were quickly overshadowed by the newer Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) founded in 1978 by Robert Muller, which is currently the largest Vietnam veterans organization.
	lists.village.virginia.edu /sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Winter_Soldier/VVAW_entry.html (434 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Against The War FBI Files
		After six Vietnam Veterans walked together in an anti-Vietnam War march, Vietnam Veterans Against the War was founded in New York City, in 1967.
		A member of the Connecticut chapter of the VVAW was arrested with an explosive device en route to a speech given by Vice President Spiro Agnew.
		After the United States withdrew from Vietnam, the focus of the VVAW moved towards seeking amnesty for those who were jailed for resisting the draft and other anti-war crimes.
	www.paperlessarchives.com /vvaw.html (619 words)

	Boston Globe Online \| John Kerry: A Candidate in the Making
		Other veteran protesters were easier targets, with their long hair, their use of a Viet Cong flag, and in some cases, their calls for overthrowing the US government.
		He ordered administration officials to show that Vietnam Veterans Against the War was "a fringe group, that it is financed from questionable sources, that it doesn't represent a veterans movement, and that the guys involved are a pretty shoddy bunch.
		One by one, the veterans, most of whom had long hair and wore combat jackets, threw their medals into the makeshift trash bin.
	www.boston.com /globe/nation/packages/kerry/061703.shtml (4525 words)

	The real story of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War : Veterans Today - U.S. Military Veterans - VA Home Loans, Vet ...
		The war sickened many U.S. soldiers, seeming to be a pointless exercise in destruction.
		In June 1965, Capt. Richard Steinke, a West Point graduate stationed in Vietnam refused to board an aircraft that was supposed to take him to a remote Vietnamese village.
		As many as 2,000 Vietnam veterans came to Washington to protest the war and the treatment they received from the government that sent them to fight.
	www.veteranstoday.com /article133.html (1975 words)

	Amazon.com: Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam: Books: Jerry Lembcke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In fact, the antiwar movement and many veterans were closely aligned, and the only documented incidents show members of the VFW and American Legion spitting on their less successful Vietnam peers.
		Lembcke, a Nam vet who was active in Vietnam Veterans Against the War, opens with Persian Gulf War politicians' use of "the spitting image" and then traces Nixon and Agnew's agitated response to antiwar activism by GIs and veterans.
		Similar images were common in post-World War I Germany and France after Indochina; Lembcke suggests the Nixon administration cultivated this notion of betrayal because it stigmatized both the antiwar movement and veterans against the war.
	www.amazon.com /Spitting-Image-Memory-Legacy-Vietnam/dp/0814751474 (2184 words)

	Mackubin Thomas Owens on John Kerry on National Review Online
		But there is another record that John Kerry is running against, and this has to do with his very emergence as a Democratic politician: Kerry, the proud Vietnam veteran vs. Kerry, the antiwar activist who accused his fellow Vietnam veterans of the most heinous atrocities imaginable.
		Many of the war stories recounted by these individuals were wildly implausible to any one who had been in Vietnam, but credulous journalists, most of whom had no military experience, uncritically passed their reports along to the public.
		Kerry gave credence to the claim that the war was fought primarily by reluctant draftees, predominantly composed of the poor, the young, or racial minorities.
	www.nationalreview.com /owens/owens200401270825.asp (2128 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry
		Kerry, a decorated veteran who seemed to be a clone of former President John F. Kennedy, right down to the military service on a patrol boat made a 1970 bid for Congress in Massachusetts' Third District.
		It was at Valley Forge with Fonda that Kerry grabbed the ears of the VVAW.
		On April 23, 1971, Kerry led members of VVAW in a protest during which they threw their medals and ribbons over a fence in front of the U.S. Capitol.
	www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com /page2.html (2953 words)

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		VVAW's self-defined initial mission was to "expos[e] the ugly truth about U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia and the unjust nature of that war." Its portrayal of U.S. troops as war criminals angered most veterans.
		At this event, 125 self-identified Vietnam veterans testified in condemnation of the American military's alleged wholesale rape, torture, arson, and murder of South Vietnamese citizens.
		VVAW was a signatory to a February 20, 2002
	www.discoverthenetworks.org /groupProfile.asp?grpid=6351 (599 words)

	vvaw.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc. (VVAW, Inc.) is a national veterans organization that was founded in New York City in 1967 after six Vietnam vets marched together in a peace demonstration.
		VVAW quickly took up the struggle for the rights and needs of veterans.
		VVAW also fought for amnesty for war resisters, including vets with bad discharges.
	grunt.space.swri.edu /vvaw.htm (383 words)

	Communists Infiltrated Kerry's Anti-war Group, Historian Says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nicosia said that Kerry was aware of communism's increasing presence in VVAW operations and that it was one of the factors that led to his resignation as one of the leaders of the group in November 1971.
		Cline, who joined VVAW in 1970 and today serves as a national coordinator for the group, said the veterans were not concerned with the political views of their fellow members.
		VVAW reached out to radical individuals and groups in part to achieve racial harmony, he said.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2004/4/2/101915.shtml (913 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Against the War
		Now, forty years later, VVAW is still going strong-- continuing its fight for peace, justice, and the rights of all veterans.
		VVAW has never stopped working to protect the welfare of those who served their country.
		For Immediate Release: Feb. 28, 2007 On Friday, February 23, U.S. war resister Kyle Snyder was arrested in British Columbia for unspecified immigration violations.
	www.vvaw.org (160 words)

	WinterSoldier.com
		WinterSoldier.com is dedicated to the American veterans of the Vietnam War, who served with courage and honor.
		On January 31, 1971, members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) met in a Detroit hotel to document war crimes they claimed to have participated in or witnessed during their combat tours in Vietnam.
		John Kerry's photograph hangs in the War Protestors Hall of the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City -- an indication of the value the Vietnamese communists place on Kerry's support of their efforts during the Vietnam War.
	www.wintersoldier.com (700 words)

	Amazon.com: The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War: Books: Andrew Hunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		However, the Vietnam War was the first conflict in American history in which a substantial number of military personnel actively protested the war while it was in progress.
		Angry, impassioned, and uncompromisingly militant, the VVAW that Hunt chronicles in this first history of the organization posed a formidable threat to America's Vietnam policy and further contributed to the sense that the nation was under siege from within.
		This remarkable veteran organized the first visit of VVA vets back to Hanoi during Christmas in 1981 and, in doing so, launched the entire process of reconciliation between veterans' groups and the governments of both America and Vietnam which culminated in the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two nations in July of 1995.
	www.amazon.com /Turning-History-Vietnam-Veterans-Against/dp/0814736351 (1863 words)

	America's War in Vietnam: 1954 to 1973
		First of all, in order to understand the Vietnam war, you need to understand that Vietnam and Laos and Cambodia were conquered by the French in the 1870s.
		Faced with increasing American opposition to the war, President Johnson in March 1968 announced that he was beginning peacetalks to end the war and that he would not run for President in 1968.
		Feeling his enemies and the increasing American opposition to the war in Vietnam is a threat to the nation, Nixon decides to use the power of the government to crush his enemies.
	www.colorado.edu /AmStudies/lewis/2010/vietnam.htm (4176 words)

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