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Updated: May 2022 Page 1 of 3 QUOTABLE QUOTES From President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.’s 2022 Presidential Proclamation: Every service member of the Vietnam generation should know that their sacrifices mattered and that their service made a difference. To the families, caregivers, and
Aug 31, 2022 · 8 – “I never in my wildest dreams imagined such a nihilistic slab of stone.”. – James Webb in a letter to Jan Scruggs in 1981. 9 – “The injustice suffered by Vietnam veterans can never be remedied. Those who served in Vietnam did not start the war; it was not their failure that led to the miserable ending.
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Nov 7, 2022 · November 07, 2022. Vietnam veteran Jan Scruggs, pictured at the Wall in September, led the charge for the memorial, which was dedicated 40 years ago. (Photo by Mike Morones/MOAA) (This article originally appeared in the November 2022 issue of Military Officer, a magazine available to all MOAA Premium and Life members.
Mar 29, 2022 · March 29, 2022. WASHINGTON — The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and its Auxiliary are proud to join a grateful nation in commemorating National Vietnam War Veterans Day, March 29, and celebrate the millions Vietnam era veterans on the fifth anniversary of the holiday. In 2017, March 29 was officially designated National Vietnam War Veterans ...
The role of the media in the perception of the Vietnam War has been widely noted. Intense levels of graphic news coverage correlated with dramatic shifts of public opinion regarding the conflict, and there is controversy over what effect journalism had on support or opposition to the war, as well as the decisions that policymakers made in ...
So, I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such." - Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights, antipoverty, and antiwar activist, 1967 91 "The picture of the world's greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week while trying to pound a tiny backward nation into ...
Mar 5, 2015 · Nina Simone, “ Backlash Blues ” (1967). Simone transformed a civil rights poem by Langston Hughes into a Vietnam War protest song. “Raise my taxes/Freeze my wages/Send my son to Vietnam ...
