Against the Vietnam War Writings by Activists

by Robbins, Mary Susannah; Ash, Arlene; Ayers, William; Berrigan, Daniel, S.J.; Chomsky, Noam; Collins, Jane; Cortright, David; Dellinger, Dave; Ensign, Tod; Fallows, James; Ferber, Michael; Franklin, H. Bruce; Harris, David; Jones, Jeff; Kaledin, Eugenia; K

• ISBN13: 9780742559141
• ISBN10: 0742559149
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-22
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The protest movement in opposition to the Vietnam War was a complex amalgam of political, social, economic, and cultural motivations, factors, and events. iAgainst the Vietnam Wari brings together the different facets of that movement and its various shades of opinion. Here the participants themselves offer statements and reflections on their activism, the era, and the consequences of a war that spanned three decades and changed the United States of America. The keynote is on individual experience in a time when almost every event had national and international significance. This collection includes classic documents and new essays by Noam Chomsky, Arlene Ash, Howard Zinn, Staughton Lynd, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Fallows, Eugene McCarthy, Daniel Berrigan, H. Bruce Franklin, and Jane Sass. A foreword by Staughton Lynd considers the events of the Vietnam War in the context of the present war in Iraq.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Foreword: Vietnam and Iraq	p. xi
Introduction	p. xix
Contributors	p. xxvii
Beginnings
The Need to Remember	p. 1
The Impossible Victory: Vietnam	p. 4
The War at Home
From Ha Ha Ha McNamara	p. 41
My Vietnam	p. 35
Burning Illusions: The Napalm Campaign	p. 62
The Responsibility of Intellectuals	p. 76
Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam	p. 100
Why I Joined the Resistance	p. 111
A Time to Say No	p. 120
Poems	p. 124
Chicago 1968: Street-Fightin' Man	p. 127
From the Suburbs to Saigon	p. 140
Vietnam Comes to Lexington: Memorial Day 1971	p. 147
Soldiers Against the War
What Did You Do In the Class War, Daddy?	p. 159
War Memorial: Staying Close to a Buddy Twenty-five Years after His Death George Swiers	p. 179
American War Crimes and Vietnam Veterans	p. 182
The War Against the War	p. 192
Consequences
Consequences of the Vietnam War and Government Policies of the Seventies	p. 213
Passing It On: The Movement for Teaching the Vietnam War in the Schools	p. 216
Visiting Vietnam	p. 227
Chicago 1996: Despite Corporate Media Silence Many Powerful Protests	p. 233
Conclusions
What I Got Out of the War	p. 243
Cherishing Vistas, Embracing Human Beings: Toward Peace and Freedom	p. 255
Deja Vu All Over Again	p. 265
Notes	p. 277
Index	p. 285
About the Editor	p. 289
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