Vietnam veterans | Portside

May 3, 2025

Vietnamese Agent Orange Victims Remain Uncompensated. Tlaib Aims To Change That.

Marjorie Cohn Truthout

Vietnamese and US descendants of those exposed to Agent Orange continue to face diseases and congenital anomalies. Just compensation for victims of Agent Orange is a moral imperative.

books

July 4, 2024

Gerald McCarthy: Haunted Marine, VVAW Activist, College Professor

Jan Barry Portside

There were no words for what to say about the war for 19-year-old combat vets coming home in 1967. Words like post-traumatic stress, survivor guilt did not exist. This book reveals the inner world of many war veterans that home folks haven’t a clue.

poetry

December 27, 2019

Viet Nam is Still With Us

Buff Whitman-Bradley

California poet Buff Whitman-Bradley reminds us that some wars never end.

poetry

April 6, 2018

Finding Work After War

H.C. Palmer Verse Daily

The Kansas poet H. C. Palmer, a battalion surgeon in the American War in Vietnam, addresses the effects of trauma on our war veterans.

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