"...the most unjust war ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.” Ulysses S. Grant (speaking of the Mexican War) Comes now Nick Turse, forty years after the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, with Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, a compendious retelling of the horrors once inflicted by the United States of America against a tiny South East Asian adversary and its entire … [Read more...]
About Michael Uhl
Michael Uhl’s writing has appeared in national magazines like Forbes, GEO, House Beautiful, Travel and Leisure, the Nation, and the Progressive. He has contributed regularly to the Sunday Boston Globe Book Review. Uhl holds a PhD in American Studies. He is the author of Vietnam Awakening, and is now working on a second memoir. His website is at: www.veteranscholar.com .
A Clipping File of Veteran War Crimes Testimony Circa 1969-1971
April 5, 2013 By 1 Comment
I have listed below more than ninety articles dating from the revelation of the My Lai massacre in late1969 until the fall of 1971 in which American war veterans presented compelling, eyewitness testimony on the “true nature of the Vietnam War.” Over and over in these accounts the veterans charged that Vietnamese civilians were routinely subjected to atrocities that resulted from policies … [Read more...]
Déjà Vu All Over Again: Notes on Jonathan Schell’s Review of “Kill Anything That Moves”
January 22, 2013 By 7 Comments
Jonathan Schell‘s probing review of Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves originated on Tom Dispatch and migrated to Salon, where it appeared under the head, “Vietnam was even more horrific than we thought.” Really? While Jonathan Schell is not accountable for the Homer-moment in Salon’s headline, he nonetheless seems convinced that Nick Turse’s recently published book justifies such hyperbole. Schell, … [Read more...]
Strange Vibes in Van Buren
January 13, 2013 By 2 Comments
I was chatting with the host at a house party recently who was telling me of his family link to the Acadian town of Van Buren on Maine’s border with Canada. I was immediately reminded of an article I’d been assigned to write years ago by Down East Magazine, a slick vehicle for boosting Maine’s touristic image. Down East had excerpted a chapter from my back roads guide to Maine, and the enthusiastic editor whose … [Read more...]
STILL WAITIN’ – Vietnam Vets Muse on the Pentagon Plan to Clean Up the Vietnam War
November 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
STILL WAITIN' - A short video produced by: The Vietnam War Commemoration CORRECTION Project You-Tube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMuc3RU0pEk&feature=youtu.be The pentagon's Vietnam War Commemoration Project was funded by Congress to the tune of $5 millions a year for the next1 13 years. That's $125 million of our tax dollars to fund events designed by "patriotic" local organizations to clean up the … [Read more...]
Telling Our Stories
October 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Among the veteran writers on this blogsite, there is an on-going discussion about the importance for aging activists like us to record and pass on our stories of opposition and resistance to war. So consider this an infomercial as well as a blatant attempt to drum up business for a memoir I published five years ago called Vietnam Awakening. We would like to reach fellow veterans who struggle in the present to survive … [Read more...]
