50 years ago, American boys, most under 20 years of age, committed unspeakable acts against a civilian hamlet in Vietnam. Over 500 women, children (yes! there were babies!) and old men were slaughtered by American soldiers. Civilian “collateral damage” is a tragic cost of any war; the My Lai massacre only exemplified it at a…
Former Army paratrooper and Veterans For Peace member Will Griffin responds to Trump’s strategy in Afghanistan on BBC News. Will also runs The Peace Report website, which was created to help educate the public about the problems surrounding militarism. Skip to 4:15 for Will’s appearance.
From Fox 5 San Diego A veteran’s group held a somber name-reading ceremony on Veterans Day to remember the sacrifice of local service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. San Diego Veterans for Peace dozens of symbolic tombstones in the grassy park next the the USS Midway Museum on Friday. Members of the group tolled…
by Barry Ladendorf, Veterans For Peace Board President First published May 30, 2016 on BillMoyers.com. As Americans mark Memorial Day, a holiday that invites us to reflect on the cost of war, we are reprinting these remarks that a leader of the Veterans for Peace made last week at Ralph Nader’s Breaking Through Power conference…
By Marjorie Cohn and Published on Truthout Mai Giang Vu was exposed to Agent Orange while serving in the Army of South Vietnam from 1968 to 1974. He carried barrels of chemicals to spray in the jungle. His sons were born in 1974 and 1975. They were unable to walk or function normally. Their limbs…
San Diego Veterans For Peace member Jim Brown recently appeared on San Diego’s KUSI News for a story about the 13-year long Afghanistan War coming to an end. Click here to watch the news clip on KUSI’s website.