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Articles 1-4 of 4 IRAQ: Vietnam Without Water - The VVA Veteran Bill Crandell was a young (26 year old}, 1st Lt., 199th Light Infantry Brigade Americal Division back in the day (1971) who gave the opening statement for the first Winter Soldier testimony by Vietnam Veterans given in Detroit, Michigan. Bill was one of the early members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), who would not only go onto be part of the heritage of VVA, but a career in the Department of Veterans Affairs recently retiring. Read more Count the Reasons Why There Will Remain a VA Claims Backlog VCS has published and really scooped many Veterans Issues that our traditional VSO have either looked the other way, remained relatively silent on until a more aggressive Veteran's group breaks through the media blackout or enough is enough.
Among them is Pentagon and VA collaboration on VA Claims to save $$$ to cover more tax cuts and more war AND
Remembering the fallen. Read more Veterans Day Parades Cannot EXCLUDE Veterans and Military Families Veterans Day Parades Cannot EXCLUDE Veterans and Military Families By J. Allan Ruhman, VVAW, Willie Hager, VVAW, and commentary by Robert L. Hanafin, Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired, Veterans Today Network, Staff Writer
Read more The DONK Syndrome and the Geezer Wars “I’m not a pacifist; I just really hate waste!” Horace Coleman, Poet and essayist, Vietnam Vet.
It was Brother Horace Coleman's quote above, and sentiments like it that inspired me, a Career Military officer, to not only become a Johnny Come Lately member of VVAW, but to give witness and testimony that though I was not a member back in the day, when it really counted.
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