Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) began inconspicuously in 1967 when six Vietnam veterans marched together in an anti-war demonstration in New York. This small group of veterans, taking the first step in spreading the concept of anti-war Vietnam veterans, questioned by many about their authenticity, and lacking in funds were more interested in putting their ideas through the media than in building a big organization.

The New Soldier

Engineering & Transportation

John Kerry

Vietnam Veterans Against The War

Engineering

Collier Books

<p>The "Winter Soldier Investigation" was a media event sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) from January 31, 1971 - February 2, 1971. It was intended to publicize war crimes and atrocities by the United States Armed Forces and their allies in the Vietnam War. The VVAW challenged the morality and conduct of the war by showing the direct relationship between military policies and war crimes in Vietnam. The three-day gathering of 109 veterans and 16 civilians took place in Detroit, Michigan. Discharged servicemen from each branch of military service, as well as civilian contractors, medical personnel and academics, all gave testimony about war crimes they had committed or witnessed during the years of 1963-1970. With the exception of Pacifica Radio, the event was not covered extensively outside Detroit. However, several journalists and a film crew recorded the event, and a documentary film called Winter Soldier was released in 1972. A complete transcript was later entered into the Congressional Record by Senator Mark Hatfield, and discussed in the Fulbright Hearings in April and May 1971, convened by Senator J. William Fulbright, chair of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Senator Hatfield made several recommendations. This is a record of these occurrences.</p>

The Winter Soldier Investigation: An Inquiry into American War Crimes.

Beacon Press

This is the kind of graphic, in-your-face account of real war that outraged uberpatriots and caused no end of grief for the US publishing industry; so much so that editors and publishers are now too thoroughly intimidated by the military-rightist network to ever offer the like of it again. As with the defensive veil drawn over the WWII Wehrmacht by the German Army, American atrocities are now explained away as the rogue doings of a few undisciplined bad apples. But these accounts make clear that the doings at My Lai were conscious policy. The wilful amnesia demanded by the uberpatriot complex makes clear why the Abu Ghraib revelations took the country by such surprise. A glance at these interviews reveal 'tis but deja vu all over again.

The Winter Soldier Investigation: An Inquiry Into American War Crimes

Beacon

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