Vietnam Veterans

Veteran Returns To Vietnam To Build Houses, 40 Years Later

Posted 11.14.2009 | Impact


CNN: He is a former Marine who has lived with battleground nightmares for 40 years and now plans a return to the land that haunts him....

Vietnam, Agent Orange and Secretary Shinseki's Timely Decisions

Trish Kinney | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics


Trish Kinney

Three new medical conditions may gain presumptive status as to their relationship to Agent Orange exposure. I am heartbroken that we haven't been there for vets when they needed us most.

Interrupting Unfriendly Persuasion

Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics


Carol Smaldino

When persuasion is used without regard for the other person, when it becomes sadistic and reckless endangerment, it is what we have come to know as torture.

Wrong. Terribly Wrong.

Mike Malloy | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics


Mike Malloy

McNamara's killing spree was without limits, without restriction, completely outside the rules of war so carefully crafted by the world's "civilized" societies.

We Remember the Dead by Helping the Living

John W. Whitehead | Posted 02.05.2009 | Living


John W. Whitehead

Clearly, we have not done enough for our veterans. That's why it's so infuriating that when someone finally does, government bureaucrats try to stop them.

Lawrence Wilkerson's Lessons of War and Truth

Nick Turse | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics


Nick Turse

Lawrence B. Wilkerson has spent 31 years as a soldier in the US Army, including military service in Vietnam. He played a role in the death of a Vietnamese girl and came to disclose that.

Of No Fixed Address: Class Warfare

Christopher Devine | Posted 11.17.2008 | Chicago


Christopher Devine

'On the streets, it's what you need. It's not what you want.'