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Vietnam postscript: Activists remember the cause that shook an empire

Posted on November 17, 2015 by Thorne Dreyer

For baby boomers who watched the Vietnam War on the nightly news, the war has never really ended.

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By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | November 17, 2015

BERKELEY — Remember the War in Vietnam? Indeed, how could anyone who lived through that era forget napalm, tiger cages, and the Ho Chi Minh Trail? How could anyone forget the rag-tail army of pacifists, GIs, hippies, self-styled revolutionaries, Catholics, Buddhists, rock bands, and just plain crazies who took on the Pentagon, the White House, and the “War Machine”?
For baby boomers and their parents who watched the Vietnam War on the nightly news year after year, the war has never really ended. Images of burning villages, napalmed children, and B-52s dropping bombs were seared into the consciousness of a nation. They’re still there, though the U.S. has gone to war in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere in the 21st century and new images of carnage, death, and destruction have spewed from the media.
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