What One Veteran Said
Vietnam veteran Wayne Smith: We were broken. I had so much anger and pain. I was crushed. I left like I had blood on my hands. I resisted calling the Vietnamese gooks and dinks, but…
Category: Testimony
What One Veteran Said
Vietnam veteran Wayne Smith: We were broken. I had so much anger and pain. I was crushed. I left like I had blood on my hands. I resisted calling the Vietnamese gooks and dinks, but…
What More Is There To Be Said?
“My eight-year-old daughter was killed. My three-year-old son. Nixon, murderer of civilians. What have I done to Nixon that he should come here to bomb my country? My daughter died right here. She was feeding…
A Proposal from Marilyn
Marilyn Vazquez Dr. Chmiel Western Culture 16 September 2016 Empathy Practicum After considering what suffering concerns me most, I decided to center my Empathy Practicum on the struggles of the undocumented Hispanic and Latino population…
On Susan Sontag, Trip to Hanoi
Journal, July 2005 Susan Sontag spent two weeks in North Vietnam in 1968, and wrote 90 pages about her experiences. (Perhaps I will cull from those notebooks I kept in Gaza and the West Bank…
For Carlos, Every Day Is Mother’s Day
Katherine Kelliher read aloud the following letter at tonight’s Share the Wealth on the Restorative Justice Movement. From their week in Los Angeles, Katherine and Anne gave a lot to fill our hearts. Please pass…
Respecting the Vietnamese
On John Balaban’s Remembering Heaven’s Face: A Moral Witness in Vietnam For Chris, Carol, and Cristina John Balaban declared himself a Conscientious Objector during the VietnamWar; he ended up going to Vietnam, but as a member…
Simple Words
Give back my father, give back my mother; Give grandpa back, grandma back; Give my sons and daughters back. Give me back myself. Give back the human race. As long as this life lasts, this…
To Be Radical Is Habitually To Do Things Which Society at Large Despises
1. I have seen the victims. And this sight of the mutilated dead has exerted such inward change upon me That the words of corrupt diplomacy appear to me more and more in their true…
“Agent Orange Has Given Me a Death Sentence”
Through information provided by Virgina, who works with Veterans for Peace, I have been examining more closely the on-going effect of Agent Orange and came across this recent testimony from the Guardian. Mark During the…