Viet Nam | Viet Nam
Apr.05.2012
My new story about sex abuse survivor & Viet Name vet: Laura Finally Talks About It
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Dec.31.2011
I find it hard to believe that war in Iraq is finallycoming to an end, at least for the United States; it reminds me of how the Viet Nam war seemed endless as well.
Estimates of military deaths among the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong military in the Viet Nam war vary, but are believed to be...
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Oct.29.2011
The last time I had marched for, or against, something was in ’61, when my high school administration adamantly banned the wearing of boat-neck style shirts from classroom attire. Wear one and you simply would not graduate. Can you imagine? This was a public HS school on Long Island, not a...
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Jan.13.2010
My favorite poem is one I wrote back in the early 1980s.
Growing up in the 60s, I began writing poetry in grammar school and continued until well after graduating from college. Back then, almost everyone dabbled in poetry. You had the Ginsberg aficionados, the dark, brooding remnants of the Beat...
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Nov.28.2009
It was a rainy night. The water had been tapping at my window for hours while I wrote. Across the street, the BART trains would whoosh by periodically, leaving clouds of spray that glowed golden as they dissipated past the street lights below. I walked out on to the deck to stretch my muscles...
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Nov.20.2009
When it began with me.
I did my first bit to stop the war in the spring of 1968. However, my actions to end the conflict in Viet Nam were not altogether altruistic or free from self-interest. I had arrived on the campus of Oberlin College the previous September, two weeks shy of my 18th birthday,...
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