Activism

In this topic there is a sort of irony. Although the veterans deserve their benefits after so many years under service and they even would like to fight for them they do not. The reason for not fighting back their rights is directly proportional to the term that the veteran's right and benefit depend on the government. If they start acting silly with the government they would end up having no benefits at all.

According to the VVAW (vietnam veterans against war) some kind of protest started in 1967 with six Vietnam veterans marching together in a peace demonstration. Now, forty-four years later, VVAW is still going strong-- continuing its fight for peace, justice, and the rights of all veterans.  THE VETERAN is the newspaper of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc. In 1971 and 1972 it was published as 1st Casualty. THE VETERAN was the first voice of Vietnam veterans in America, and has consistently addressed issues of peace and justice. Original articles on Post Traumatic Stress and Agent Orange have appeared since its first year of publication.

According to the Vietnam Protest Movement the most dramatic opposition to the war came from the soldiers themselves. Between 1960 and 1973, 503,926 members of the US armed forces deserted. Many soldiers began to question the morality of the war once they began fighting in Vietnam.

Barry Romo is a national coordinator of VVAW. This group want the bombs to stop falling, the GI's to stop dying and Americans to stop killing Iraqis. This comes from the critics that soldiers received afterVietnam war. Veterans were walking point on post-traumatic stress disorder and Agent Orange without law degrees or a big budget while the establishment said  that they were being crybabies or spreading communost propaganda. This is the opinion of veterans from this group.


Veteran activist in protest for their benefits.
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